Beethoven: Con alcune licenze
Details
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Artist
- Andrea Molteni
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Piano Classics
- Released
- May 03, 2024
- Catalog #
- PCL10309
- UPC
- 5029365103091
About
New recordings of late Beethoven at his
most heroic and visionary.
Andrea Molteni plays Scarlatti with ‘ringing
tone and virtuosic agility’ reported Fanfare
magazine of the Italian pianist’s collection of
sonatas on Piano Classics (PCL10233). The
Art Music Lounge praised his bold
juxtaposition of Petrassi and Dallapiccola
(PCL10222) as ‘a strange but wonderful
album’, noting that ‘Molteni sparkles as he
rips through the music with energy and
élan’.
These qualities hold him in good stead for
the rigours of late Beethoven. With his
‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata of 1818, the
composer challenged pianists and listeners
alike to assimilate a work unprecedented in
its length and complexity. Motivically linked
by a descending third through the eventful
course of its four movements, the Sonata
opens with a precipitous Allegro. A mordant
Scherzo then introduces a long and
spiritually engaged slow movement, before
the mighty finale hurtles towards its epic
conclusion through a densely wrought
fugue. In each aspect, then, the Sonata
outlines blueprints for what would become
known as Beethoven’s late style, whether
expressed in solo, chamber, orchestral or
vocal music. The most celebrated single
result of that late style is the Grosse Fuge
which Beethoven wrote as the finale to his
String Quartet Op.131. Persuaded by his
publisher to substitute it for a less arduous
conclusion, Beethoven left this mighty fugue
to stand on its own, and so it has stood ever
since, as a ferocious yet rewarding exercise
of concentration and contrapuntal art.
Molteni presents it in a 19th-century
arrangement made by Louis Winkler which
has attracted surprisingly few recordings.
At the centre of Molteni’s recital, the Sonata
Op.110 offers salutary contrast. Here too are
examples of heroism, rustic humour and
melancholy, but distilled to an essence of
vitality.
Tracklist 8 tracks
-
1 I. Allegro 10:49
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro
- Duration
- 10:49
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
2 II. Scherzo: Assai vivace - Presto - Tempo I 02:41
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Scherzo: Assai vivace - Presto - Tempo I
- Duration
- 02:41
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
3 III. Adagio sostenuto, appassionato e con molto sentimento 15:36
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Adagio sostenuto, appassionato e con molto sentimento
- Duration
- 15:36
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
4 IV. Largo - Un poco più vivace - Tempo I - Allegro - Tempo I - Prestissimo - Allegro risoluto 12:11
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Largo - Un poco più vivace - Tempo I - Allegro - Tempo I - Prestissimo - Allegro risoluto
- Duration
- 12:11
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
5 I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo 06:39
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
- Duration
- 06:39
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
6 II. Allegro molto 02:14
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Allegro molto
- Duration
- 02:14
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
7 III. Adagio ma non troppo - più adagio - Andante - Adagio - Meno Adagio - Adagio - Adagio ma non troppo - Arioso dolente - Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo - L'istesso tempo di Ar 09:48
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Adagio ma non troppo - più adagio - Andante - Adagio - Meno Adagio - Adagio - Adagio ma non troppo - Arioso dolente - Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo - L'istesso tempo di Ar
- Duration
- 09:48
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni
-
8 Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 133 (arr. L. Winkler for piano) 15:59
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 133 (arr. L. Winkler for piano)
- Duration
- 15:59
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Andrea Molteni