The Young Beethoven: Piano Quartets, WoO 36 / Luthi, Asabuki, Foster, Miucci

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Dynamic
Release Date
January 17, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
    • PERFORMER
      Luthi, Asabuki, Foster, Miucci
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 17, 2020
    • UPC
      8007144078546
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DYN-CDS7854
    • LABEL
      Dynamic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    2. II. Adagio con espressione

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    4. I. Adagio assai

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    5. II. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    6. III. Theme and variations: Cantabile

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    7. Variation 1

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    8. Variation 2

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    9. Variation 3

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    10. Variation 4

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    11. Variation 5

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    12. Variation 6

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    13. Theme and variations: Allegretto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    14. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    15. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci

    16. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci


At the age of 13 Beethoven was already hailed as the new Mozart and many of his early works, especially in the chamber music genre, were influenced by Mozart’s model, like the Three Quartets for Piano and Strings WoO 36, composed in 1785 and published posthumously in November 1828. These three chamber works are directly modeled on three of the six violin sonatas that Mozart published in 1781: KV 296, 379 and 380. One of young Beethoven’s patrons was Johann Gottfried Mastiaux , whose children played violin, viola, cello and the piano. Although there is no concrete evidence for it, Beethoven’s association with the Mastiaux family could have inspired him to write for such an instrumental ensemble; it is unlikely that Beethoven was yet aware of the first example of this genre, Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, KV 478, which was finished only on 16 October 1785 in Vienna, thus not in time for Beethoven to have become acquainted with it in Bonn. Therefore, it is possible that WoO 36 – and not KV 478 – was in fact the first example of the piano quartet in chamber music literature. Despite these circumstances and the composer’s youth, the WoO 36 piano quartets represent an important artistic pinnacle in which the seeds of Beethoven’s genius that would proliferate during his maturity were already evident. This album features the first recording on historical instruments of the Piano Quartets WoO 36 (Bonn, 1785) played by Leonardo Miucci (historical piano), Meret Lüthi, , Sonoko Asabuki, and Alexandre Foster, .