Release Date: 20 September 2024
Label: Rondeau - Cd / Rondeau Production
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4037408062749
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Monument to Beethoven
Description
In the 1830s, the idea emerged to erect a monument to Ludwig van Beethoven in his birthplace of Bonn--a revolutionary initiative brought to life by musicians, musicologists, and citizens. Many of the most renowned composers of their time, including Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Frederic Chopin, contributed their own compositions, arrangements, or concert proceeds to support the statue's erection. On this album, the young exceptional pianist Nikolay Khozyainov interprets a high-calibre selection of those works that helped finance the Beethoven monument. Each piece has its own unique, sometimes clear, sometimes more subtle, connection to the composer Beethoven. These include Liszt's piano arrangement of the darkly moving Allegretto from Beethoven's 7th Symphony, Schumann's multifaceted etudes on a theme by Beethoven, Mendelssohn's "Variations serieuses," and Schumann's Piano Fantasy in C Major. In the finest pianist tradition, Nikolay Khozyainov adds his own composition to the album: the tonally delicate "Petals of Peace", a commissioned work for the United Nations Organisation.
Neuer Kammerchor Berlin; Adrian Emans
Cora Irsen; Capitol Symphonie Orchester; Roland Boer
Voktett Hannover
Trinity Boys Choir; Laetitia Fédérici
Leipziger Universitätschor; Mendelssohnorchester Leipzig; Viktorija Kaminskaite; Marie Henriette Re
Klaus Mertens; Volodymyr Lavrynenko
Gutenberg-Kammerchor; Neumeyer Consort; Chisa Tanigaki; Rebekka Stolz; Fabian Kelly; Christian Wagn
Benjamin Glaubitz; Jörg Reddin; Ensemble Polyharmonique; Thüringer Bach Collegium; Gernot Süßmuth;
Various
Raaf Hekkema
Zlata Chochieva
Tyler Hay
Tomoko Mayeda
Stephen Farr (organ)
Sophia Weidemann; Tinka Kleffner
Sofja Gulbadamova
