7033662013500

33 + 1 - Beethoven/hagen

Ingrid Andsnes

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Format: CD

Cat No: PSC1350

Release Date:  26 February 2016

Label:  Simax

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  7033662013500

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    Ingrid Andsnes, sister of the world-renowned Leif Ove Andsnes, makes her solo CD debut with the most demanding work in the piano literature, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, music that has become synonymous with the struggle and transformation in her own life.

    Ingrid's first encounter with the Diabelli Variations as a performer came directly after a very challenging period of illness: "I believe I had the Diabelli Variations 'thrown at me' because I needed exactly that music at exactly that time. I needed to play music that demanded so much power, strength, perseverance, endless dives into the music, with great technical challenges. Music that really pushes the envelope, beyond where you think it must end. I had to feel the passion, the great deep emotions, the vulnerability, and most important: the power. Reclaiming the control of unused muscles, strength and love. You could say that my life got the perfect soundtrack."



    The publisher and composer Anton Diabelli invited his fellow composers of 1819 Vienna to write a variation on his own little waltz. Beethoven turned the proposition down, only to reconsider and write not one variation, but thirty-three! In 2015 Ingrid Andsnes invited composer and curator Lars Petter Hagen to add a cadenza to Beethoven's set of variations. Employing EBows on the strings of the piano to haunting effect, this cadenza replaces the short Poco Adagio before variation 33 in the present recording.



    Ingrid Andsnes (born in 1978) is a highly accomplished pianist and one of Norway's most endearingly passionate musicians. She studied with Joan Havill at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and, like her brother Leif Ove, with Jiri Hlinka at Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. She has collaborated with the finest of Norway's musicians, among them Solveig Kringelborn, Arve Tellefsen, Håvard Gimse and The Norwegian Soloist Choir. In 2013 she played Beethoven's monumental Diabelli Variations in the play "33 Variations" by Moisés Kaufman, staged at Det Norske Teateret in Oslo.



    "On this impressive recording, Ms. Andsnes brings clarity, rhythmic élan and a touch of quirky playfulness to this demanding, audacious yet often humorous work." - New York Times



    Personnel: Ingrid Andsnes (piano)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, Tema. Vivace
      • 2. Variation 1: Alla Marcia maestoso
      • 3. Variation 2: Poco Allegro
      • 4. Variation 3: L'istesso tempo
      • 5. Variation 4: Un poco più vivace
      • 6. Variation 5: Allegro vivace
      • 7. Variation 6: Allegro ma non troppo e serioso
      • 8. Variation 7: Un poco più allegro
      • 9. Variation 8: Poco vivace
      • 10. Variation 9: Allegro pesante e risoluto
      • 11. Variation 10: Presto
      • 12. Variation 11: Allegretto
      • 13. Variation 12: Un poco più moto
      • 14. Variation 13: Vivace
      • 15. Variation 14: Grave e maestoso
      • 16. Variation 15: Presto scherzando
      • 17. Variation 16: Allegro
      • 18. Variation 17: Allegro
      • 19. Variation 18: Poco moderato
      • 20. Variation 19: Presto
      • 21. Variation 20: Andante
      • 22. Variation 21: Allegro con brio - Meno allegro - Tempo primo
      • 23. Variation 22: Allegro molto, alla 'Notte e giorno faticar' di Mozart
      • 24. Variation 23: Allegro assai
      • 25. Variation 24: Fughetta (Andante)
      • 26. Variation 25: Allegro
      • 27. Variation 26: (Piacevole)
      • 28. Variation 27: Vivace
      • 29. Variation 28: Allegro
      • 30. Variation 29: Adagio ma non troppo
      • 31. Variation 30: Andante, sempre cantabile
      • 32. Variation 31: Largo, molto espressivo
      • 33. Variation 32: Fuga: Allegro
      • 34. Lars Petter Hagen: Diabelli Cadenza - for piano and EBow
      • 35. Variation 33: Tempo di Menuetto moderato

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