Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 and variations

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Release Date: 21st Oct 2013
Catalogue No: 94624
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5 No. 1

Work length23:21

$5.00

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1: I. Adagio sostenuto - Allegro

Track length17:01

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II. Rondo. Allegro vivace

Track length6:20

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Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2

Work length23:56

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

I. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo -

Track length5:35

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I. Allegro molto più tosto presto

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II. Rondo. Allegro

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Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69

Work length25:44

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

I. Allegro non tanto

Track length12:30

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II. Scherzo. Allegro molto

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III. Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace

Track length8:11

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Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102 No. 1

Work length14:10

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

I. Adagio - Allegro vivace

Track length7:12

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II. Adagio: Tempo d'andante - Allegro vivace

Track length6:58

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Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102 No. 2

Work length18:41

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

I. Allegro con brio

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II. Adagio con moto sentimento d'affetto

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III. Allegro - Allegro fugato

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Beethoven: Variations (12) on "See the conquering hero comes" for Cello and Piano, WoO 45

Work length11:20

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

Theme. Allegretto

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Variation 1

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Variation 2

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Varaition 3

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Variation 4

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Variation 5

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Variation 6

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Variation 7

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Variation 8

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Variation 9

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Variation 10

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Variation 11

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Variation 12

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Beethoven: Variations (12) on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" for Cello and Piano, Op. 66

Work length9:23

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

Thema

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Variation 1

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Variation 2

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Variation 3

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Variation 4

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Variation 5

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Variation 6

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Variation 7

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Variation 8

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Variation 9

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Variation 10

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Variation 11

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Variation 12

Track length1:58

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Beethoven: Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46

Work length8:55

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Timora Rosler, Klára Würtz

Theme

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Variation 1

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Variation 2

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Variation 3

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Variation 4

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Variation 5

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Variation 6

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Variation 7

Track length1:49

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Beethoven’s oeuvre only comprises a small collection of works for cello and piano, but that the composer was an accomplished writer for this combination of instruments is evident from the fact that Jean‐Louis Duport, one of Frederick II’s court cellists and one of the most revered musicians of his day, incorporated many of the techniques found in the Op.5 sonatas into his instruction manual for cello. The two works each contain only two movements, and the absence of a slow movement was probably to avoid the problem of dynamic imbalance between the instruments (which would have been accentuated in adagio passages) – something that is also the case with the Op.68 sonatas, composed in 1807. Only with the second Op.102 sonata does the composer finally replace the slow introduction, as found in No.1 and all of the above works, with a fullscale slow movement, one that precedes the massive fugal finale that was to form such an intrinsic part of Beethoven’s late‐period works.

Also featured are the three delightful sets of variations for cello and piano, each modelled on a different aria from Handel’s opera Judas Maccabeus and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and each (just like the sonatas) placing the piano on an equal footing with the cello throughout. The works are an engaging addition to a collection that marks the return of Israeli/Dutch cellist Timora Rosler and Hungarian pianist Klára Würtz, whose previous Brilliant Classics release ‘Cello Rhapsody’ (BC 9157) was released to critical acclaim, and which provides a snapshot of the composer’s stylistic stylistic development over a period of nearly 20 years.

Contains notes on the music and detailed artist biographies.

Recorded 19–23 January 2013, Sala congressi del Parco naturalistico di Onara, Padua, Italy.

Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 and variations

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