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Beethoven

Description:

Beethoven's 250th anniversary year is a good time to get to know the great musician! The true charm of Beethoven's works is conveyed only through the use of ancient instruments. Ricercar, which boasts a 40-year track record for excellent recordings on ancient instruments, has also released an album that shines from the perspective of a pioneer in the field of ancient music. In the 19th century, when recording technology was not available, this album highlights "chamber music arrangements" that contributed to music lovers' private enjoyment of large works that required large orchestral forces. The music is so rich that it is impossible to fully appreciate it after just one listening. ...... Mozart's masterpieces from the mid-Mozart period onward and Beethoven's large-scale works were astonished by their exceptional complexity and depth of flavor, and sometimes caused controversy among contemporaries. The publication of scores and the dissemination of critical articles contributed as much to the increase in the number of people who understood them as the publication of chamber music arrangements that could be performed by a few music lovers. Hummel, who studied under Mozart as a precocious prodigy and later became Haydn's successor, Beethoven's rival, and a man who understood him, made arrangements with great taste in his later years that unraveled Mozart's unusual concerto in a minor key and Beethoven's first symphony with surprising clarity and conveyed the flavor of the works without losing anything. The true value of this arrangement can only be appreciated when played by a virtuoso on the instruments of the time.The four talented musicians, who are making remarkable strides in Europe, will bring back to life the "wonder of arrangement" as it was 200 years ago on period instruments including the original 19th century keyboards, including Hummel's own sonatas, which cannot be described in the usual way of sonata form as the works of the great musician. Naxos Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Concerto for piano and orchestra in c minor KV.491~Allegro
2.Concerto for piano and orchestra in c minor KV.491~Larghetto
3.Concerto for piano and orchestra in c minor KV.491~Allegretto
4.Sonata for piano in f minor Op. 20~Allegro moderato
5.Sonata for piano in f minor Op. 20~Adagio maestoso
6.Sonata for piano in f minor Op. 20~Finale: Presto
7.Symphony no. 1 in c major Op. 21~Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
8.Symphony no. 1 in c major Op. 21~Andante cantabile con moto
9.Symphony no. 1 in c major Op. 21~Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace
10.Symphony no. 1 in c major Op. 21~Finale: Adagio - Allegro molto vivace