Hommage A Beethoven

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Release Date: 7th Jul 2023
Catalogue No: AVI8553529
Label: Avi Music
Length: 52 minutes

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Liszt: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, S. 464 / 7 (After Beethoven, Op. 92)

Work length9:19

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Aris Alexander Blettenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Bösendorfer, Vienna

II. Allegretto

Track length9:19

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Schumann: Etudes in Variation Form on a Theme by Beethoven, WoO 31

Work length15:39

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Aris Alexander Blettenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Bösendorfer, Vienna

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101

Work length20:22

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Aris Alexander Blettenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Bösendorfer, Vienna

I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung. Allegretto ma non troppo

Track length4:09

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II. Lebhaft, marschmäßig. Vivace alla marcia

Track length6:11

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III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll. Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto

Track length2:39

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IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit. Allegro

Track length7:23

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Beethoven: An die Hoffnung, Op. 94 (Arr. Blettenberg for Piano)

Work length6:53

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Aris Alexander Blettenberg (piano)
Recorded: 2022-06
Recording Venue: Bösendorfer, Vienna

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The debut CD from the young German Pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg.

The programme begins and ends with transcriptions of works by Beethoven. The first piece is the Allegretto (2nd movement) from Beethoven's 7th Symphony in the arrangement by Franz Liszt, and the programme ends with a solo piano version of Beethoven's song An die Hoffnung, created especially for this CD. The two pieces form a framework of sonorities and emotions that set the basic mood for this musical journey.

The Allegretto serves as a prologue: it looks ahead, indicating the direction we shall be taking. At the other end of the programme, the song transcription serves as an epilogue: it looks back, taking stock of all that has occurred. On the one hand, there is a somber mood that runs through the entire programme: we find it in the Allegretto's passages in minor, in the Schumann variations, in the third movement of the Beethoven sonata, and in the recitativo-like passages of An die Hoffnung.

These are complemented by episodes of light: the A-Major sections of the Allegretto, the first, second, and fourth movements of the sonata, and, ultimately, the hopeful, optimistic sonorities we find in the song transcription with the final cry: "O, Hope!" (Aris Alexander Blettenberg)

Hommage A Beethoven

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