Beethoven: Works for Guitar & Piano / Halasz

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BIS
Release Date
July 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
    • PERFORMER
      F. Halasz, D. Halasz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 03, 2020
    • UPC
      7318599925059
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2505
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Entrata: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    2. II. Tempo ordinario d'un menuetto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    3. III. Molto allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    4. IV. Andante con variazioni

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    5. V. Allegro, scherzando e vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    6. VI. Adagio -

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    7. VI. Allegro vivace e disinvolto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    8. Mandolin Sonatina in C Minor, WoO 43a (arr. D. Halász for guitar and piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    9. 12 Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, WoO 40 (arr. D. Halász for guitar and piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    10. Mandolin Sonatina in C Major, WoO 44a (arr. D. Halász for guitar and piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    11. Adagio in E-Flat Major, WoO 43b (arr. D. Halász for guitar and piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    12. Andante and Variations in D Major, WoO 44b (arr. D. Halász for guitar and piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    13. No. 1. Adagio assai, Hess 103

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    14. 2 Stücke, WoO 33b, Hess 106: No. 1. Allegro non più molto (arr. D. Halász for piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Débora Halász

    15. No. 2. Scherzo, Hess 104

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    16. 2 Stücke, WoO 33b, Hess 106: No. 2. Allegretto (arr. D. Halász for guitar)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász

    17. No. 3. Allegro, Hess 105

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász

    18. 12 Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in F Major, Op. 66 (arr. F. Carulli for guitar and piano)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Franz Halász, Débora Halász


Around 1800 Vienna was, alongside Paris, one of the European centers for guitar performance. The instrument was well suited for the idiom of Viennese classicism and ideal for domestic music-making and it was promoted by figures such as the virtuoso Mauro Giuliani and the composer/publisher Anton Diabelli. But Beethoven, the towering giant of musical Vienna, seems to have been unmoved by the charms of the guitar – while instead composing for its sibling, the mandolin. Duo Halász, the husband and wife team of Franz and Débora Halász have now rectified this, by appropriating Beethoven’s four extant pieces for mandolin and piano (WoO?43 and 44) as well as adapting some other early compositions, including the Serenade in D major for flute and piano and the Variations on Mozart’s ‘Se vuol ballare’ for violin and piano. In doing so they follow the example of an eminent guitarist and contemporary of Beethoven, namely Ferdinando Carulli, whose 1825 arrangement of the Variations on Mozart’s ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ closes the programme. Franz and Débora Halász have made a number of recordings for BIS, together and separately, to critical acclaim, including a Latin Grammy Award for their disc Alma Brasileira with chamber works by Radamés Gnattali.