Beethoven: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 15 - Diabelli Variations / Brautigam

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Release Date
February 3, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
    • PERFORMER
      Ronald, Brautigam
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 03, 2017
    • UPC
      7318599919430
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-1943
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Theme: Vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    2. Variation 1: Alla Marcia, maestoso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    3. Variation 2: Poco allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    4. Variation 3: L'istesso tempo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    5. Variation 4: Un poco più vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    6. Variation 5: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    7. Variation 6: Allegro ma non troppo e serioso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    8. Variation 7: Un poco più allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    9. Variation 8: Poco vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    10. Variation 9: Allegro pesante e risoluto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    11. Variation 10: Presto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    12. Variation 11: Allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    13. Variation 12: Un poco più mosso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    14. Variation 13: Vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    15. Variation 14: Grave e maestoso

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    16. Variation 15: Presto scherzando

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    17. Variation 16: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    18. Variation 17: (Allegro)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    19. Variation 18: Poco moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    20. Variation 19: Presto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    21. Variation 20: Andante

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    22. Variation 21: Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    23. Variation 22: Allegro molto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    24. Variation 23: Allegro assai

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    25. Variation 24: Fughetta - Andante

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    26. Variation 25: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    27. Variation 26: (Piacevole)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    28. Variation 27: Vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    29. Variation 28: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    30. Variation 29: Adagio ma non troppo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    31. Variation 30: Andante, sempre cantabile

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    32. Variation 31: Largo, molto espressivo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    33. Variation 32: Fuga - Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    34. Variation 33: Tempo di Menuetto, moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    35. No. 1. Air ecossais in G Major: The cottage maid

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    36. No. 2. Air ecossais in C Minor: Of noble stock was Shinkin

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    37. No. 3. Air autrichien in C Major: A Schüsserl und a Reindl

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    38. No. 4. Air ecossais in E-Flat Major: The last rose of summer

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    39. No. 5. Air ecossais in E-Flat Major: Chiling O'Guiry

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam

    40. No. 6. Air ecossais in D Major: Paddy whack

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ronald Brautigam


In 1819 the Viennese music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli sent a short waltz to a long list of composers. These included Schubert, Hummel, a very young Franz Liszt and, as the most prominent composer of the time, naturally Beethoven. Diabelli was proposing to compile an anthology of variations on his own waltz, one from each composer. Beethoven responded in a characteristic manner: first there was nothing, and then there was nothing … and then, in 1823, there was an entire, and monumental, set of no less than thirty-three variations. There are several possible reasons for this, one being that Beethoven felt that it was below his dignity to take part in a project of this nature. What is certain, however, is that he must have found Diabelli’s theme intriguing material to work with – and against: Beethoven often seems to poke fun at the waltz, starting already in the first variation by turning it into a pompous march. But like all truly great variation works the Diabelli Variations take in the high as well as the low, jokes as well as drama – or serenity, as in Variation 24, a Fughetta, clearly inspired by the Aria in Bach’s Goldberg Variations. As the last large-scale piano work by Beethoven, the Diabelli Variations form a fitting close to Ronald Brautigam’s traversal of the complete solo piano music. Described in International Record Review as ‘a Beethoven player whose musical discernment is a constant source of wonderment’, Brautigam has through the course of this series performed works composed between 1783 and 1825, using four different fortepianos. On the present release we hear a copy of a 4-stringed fortepiano by Conrad Graf from 1822 – similar to Beethoven’s own last instrument, which Graf supplied him with in 1826, a year before the composer’s death.