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Variation[s] 1: Beethoven

Mozart - Schumann - Webern

Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Variation[s] 1: Beethoven

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Everything is beautifully played, and there is expressiveness in Webern’s Variations, op. 27, where Tiberghien finds hidden feelings I didn’t expect—the music needn’t send up red flags. He captures...

Fanfare, July/August 2023

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Variation[s] 1: Beethoven

Mozart - Schumann - Webern

Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

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Everything is beautifully played, and there is expressiveness in Webern’s Variations, op. 27, where Tiberghien finds hidden feelings I didn’t expect—the music needn’t send up red flags. He captures...

Fanfare, July/August 2023

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Cédric Tiberghien has long been interested in the principle of Beethovenian variation, as is demonstrated by a disc he made for harmonia mundi twenty years ago. He now proposes a project on a quite different scale, in which all Beethoven’s variation cycles will be juxtaposed with works illustrating the evolution of the genre, from the Renaissance to the present day. Here is the first part of a trilogy that promises to be fascinating!

Contents and tracklist

Beethoven: Eroica Variations, Op. 35
Work length26:16
Introduction. Allegretto vivace
Track length3:19
Theme
Track length0:42
Variation I
Track length0:40
Variation II
Track length0:53
Variation III
Track length0:47
Variation IV
Track length0:41
Variation V
Track length0:56
Variation VI
Track length0:42
Variation VII. Canone all′ottava
Track length0:40
Variation VIII
Track length1:00
Variation IX
Track length0:37
Variation X
Track length0:50
Variation XI
Track length0:50
Variation XII
Track length0:45
Variation XIII
Track length0:47
Variation XIV (minore)
Track length1:22
Variation XV (maggiore). Largo
Track length5:54
Finale (alla fuga). Allegro con brio
Track length4:51
Beethoven: Variations (6) for Piano on an Original Theme in F major, Op. 34
Work length13:54
Theme. Adagio cantabile
Track length1:42
Variation I
Track length1:40
Variation II. Allegro, ma non troppo
Track length1:07
Variation III. Allegretto
Track length1:19
Variation IV. Tempo di Minuetto
Track length1:36
Variation V. Marcia. Allegretto
Track length1:53
Variation VI. Allegretto
Track length1:47
Coda. Allegretto - Adagio molto
Track length2:50
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K331 'Alla Turca'
Work length25:23
I. Tema con variazione
Track length14:30
II. Menuetto - Trio
Track length6:55
III. Alla turca
Track length3:58
Beethoven: Variations (6) on an original theme 'Die Ruinen von Athen', Op. 76
Work length7:19
Theme. Allegro risoluto
Track length0:37
Variation I
Track length0:35
Variation II
Track length0:41
Variation III
Track length1:06
Variation IV
Track length0:51
Variation V
Track length1:12
Variation VI. Presto
Track length2:17
Schumann: Variations on a theme by Beethoven
Work length17:11
No. 1, Un poco maestoso
Track length1:33
No. 2
Track length0:36
No. 3
Track length0:51
No. A6, Passionato
Track length0:46
No. 4, Molto moderato
Track length1:16
No. A10, Prestissimo
Track length0:36
No. B7
Track length0:59
No. 5
Track length2:27
No. B5, Cantando
Track length0:44
No. 6, Presto
Track length0:45
No. A7, Idee aus Beethoven
Track length1:16
No. 7
Track length0:57
No. B4
Track length0:50
No. A11, Legato teneramente
Track length1:03
No. B3
Track length2:32
Beethoven: Variations (7) on the Quartet 'Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen', WoO 75
Work length11:45
Theme. Allegretto
Track length1:00
Variation I
Track length0:59
Variation II
Track length1:11
Variation III
Track length1:05
Variation IV
Track length1:08
Variation V
Track length1:13
Variation VI
Track length1:41
Variation VII. Allegro
Track length3:28
Beethoven: Variations (9) on the Aria 'Quant' è più bello', WoO 69
Work length6:19
Theme. Allegretto
Track length0:29
Variation I
Track length0:27
Variation II
Track length0:27
Variation III
Track length0:33
Variation IV
Track length0:36
Variation V
Track length0:36
Variation VI
Track length0:29
Variation VII
Track length0:32
Variation VIII
Track length0:31
Variation IX
Track length1:39
Webern: Variations, Op. 27
Work length6:20
I. Sehr Mäßig
Track length2:09
II. Sehr Schnell
Track length0:41
III. Ruhig fließend
Track length3:30
Beethoven: Variations (6) in G major on the duet 'Nel cor più non mi sento' from the opera La Molinara by Giovanni Paisiello, WoO 70
Work length5:19
Theme
Track length0:35
Variation I
Track length0:34
Variation II
Track length0:33
Variation III
Track length0:39
Variation IV
Track length0:55
Variation V
Track length0:36
Variation VI
Track length1:27
Beethoven: Variations (8) in F major on Tändeln und Scherzen (by Süssmayr), WoO 76
Work length10:25
Theme. Andante quasi allegretto
Track length0:39
Variation I
Track length0:42
Variation II
Track length0:39
Variation III
Track length0:47
Variation IV
Track length0:47
Variation V
Track length0:52
Variation VI
Track length1:03
Variation VII. Adagio molto ed espressivo
Track length2:31
Variation VIII. Allegro vivace - Adagio
Track length2:25
Schumann: Theme with Variations in E flat major WoO 24 ('Geistervariationen')
Work length11:12
Theme. Leise, innig
Track length1:47
Variation I
Track length1:36
Variation II. Canonisch
Track length1:35
Variation III. Etwas belebter
Track length1:39
Variation IV
Track length2:05
Variation V
Track length2:30

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Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2024
    Nominated - Solo Instrument

July/August 2023

Everything is beautifully played, and there is expressiveness in Webern’s Variations, op. 27, where Tiberghien finds hidden feelings I didn’t expect—the music needn’t send up red flags. He captures the tragic loneliness of Schumann’s last utterance in a reading that is among the very few that make me believe in the “Geister” Variations as not coming from the composer’s drastic decline.

May 2023

judicious as they are, it would be unfair to call Tiberghien’s performances unassuming…‘Finely wrought’ would be more accurate – the kind of playing that holds up well on long-term listening.
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