Beethoven: Quintet for Piano & Winds

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Release Date: 2nd May 2006
Catalogue No: CDA67526
Label: Hyperion
Length: 71 minutes

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Beethoven: Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"

Work length20:47

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The Gaudier Ensemble

I. Allegro con brio

Track length9:18

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II. Adagio

Track length4:45

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III. Theme and Variations on 'Pria ch'io l'impegno'

Track length6:44

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Beethoven: Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, Op.16

Work length25:31

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The Gaudier Ensemble

I. Grave – Allegro ma non troppo

Track length12:48

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II. Andante cantabile

Track length7:04

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III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:39

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Beethoven: Serenade in D major for Flute, Violin and Viola, Op. 25

Work length24:43

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The Gaudier Ensemble

I. Entrata: Allegro

Track length3:40

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II. Tempo ordinario d'un menuetto

Track length5:21

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III. Allegro molto

Track length2:02

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IV. Andante con variazioni

Track length6:05

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V. Allegro scherzando e vivace

Track length2:05

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VI. Adagio – Allegro vivace e disinvolto – Presto

Track length5:30

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Richard Wigmore writes: In November 1792 the twenty-one-year-old Beethoven left his native Bonn for Vienna, then vying with London as the musical capital of Europe. His plan was to study composition with Haydn before launching himself as a composerperformer. With the help of aristocratic contactsindispensable to any aspiring young musician in Viennahe quickly made his mark in the citys salons, dazzling the cognoscenti with his prowess as pianist and improviser and his brilliantly original compositions. He was understandably cautious about tackling the elevated genres of the string quartet and the symphony in which Haydn, still at the height of his powers, especially excelled. But he was prepared to risk head-on comparison with the recently dead Mozart in works like the first two piano concertos, the E flat major String Trio Op 3 (modelled on Mozarts Trio K563) and a clutch of chamber works involving wind instruments. Beethoven clearly had Mozarts quintet K452 in mind when writing his quintet in E flat for piano and wind however despite the instrumentation and structure being the same Beethovens voice and methods remain very much his own, writing on a more expansive scale, creating outer movements that at times resemble a chamber concerto for piano and wind. Also on this disc is the elegant and refined Trio in B flat major, composed for the then-rare combination of clarinet, cello and piano and the Serenade in D major, Op 25, for the airy combination of flute, violin and viola.

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