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Beethoven: Sonatas & Overtures Arr. String Quartet

Leipzig String Quartet

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Cat No: MDG3072072

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Release Date:  22 June 2018

Label:  MDG

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  760623207223

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    Beethoven’s Piano Sonata op. 106, the “Hammerklavier Sonata,” is regarded as the most complex and demanding piece among the complex and demanding works from his late period. It was not until Franz Liszt, decades after Beethoven’s death, that a pianist was able to master this
    sonata’s madcap technical challenges.

    The version for string quartet prepared by David Plylar, a
    curator at the Library of Congress, was initially intended as a guide through the structural thicket of this gigantic opus. In this rendering by the Leipzig String Quartet, however, it also turns out to be an extremely revealing expansion of our musical horizons.

    Two transcriptions by Beethoven’s contemporaries enrich the program. Along with the Gewandhaus violist Peter Michael Borck, the quartet members present Beethoven’s third attempt to write an overture for his opera Leonore. At the very latest when Borck reaches for the famous offstage
    trumpet, the last skeptic will become a firm believer in the quintet’s symphonic qualities.

    The considerably trimmer final version of the Fidelio overture impressively rounds off this extraordinary project.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Grosse Sonate Für Das Hammerklavier Op.106 - Allegro
      • 2. Scherzo. Assai Vivace
      • 3. Adagio Sostenuto
      • 4. Largo - Allegro Risoluto. Fuga A Tre Sogetti
      • 5. Overture Leonore No. 3 Op. 72b
      • 6. Overture Fidelio Op. 72c