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

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Composer
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
Artist
Luthi, Asabuki, Foster, Miucci
Format
CD
Label
Dynamic
Released
Jan 17, 2020
Catalog #
DYN-CDS7854
UPC
8007144078546

About

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, .

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro vivace 09:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    09:54
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  2. 2 II. Adagio con espressione 03:15
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio con espressione
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  3. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro 03:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  4. 4 I. Adagio assai 09:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Adagio assai
    Duration
    09:09
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  5. 5 II. Allegro con spirito 08:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    08:01
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  6. 6 III. Theme and variations: Cantabile 01:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Theme and variations: Cantabile
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  7. 7 Variation 1 01:13
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variation 1
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  8. 8 Variation 2 01:07
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variation 2
    Duration
    01:07
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  9. 9 Variation 3 02:17
    Track
    9
    Title
    Variation 3
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  10. 10 Variation 4 01:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variation 4
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  11. 11 Variation 5 01:04
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variation 5
    Duration
    01:04
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  12. 12 Variation 6 01:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    Variation 6
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  13. 13 Theme and variations: Allegretto 01:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    Theme and variations: Allegretto
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  14. 14 I. Allegro moderato 10:46
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    10:46
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  15. 15 II. Andante con moto 11:54
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    11:54
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci
  16. 16 III. Rondo: Allegro 05:44
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Meret Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, Alexandre Foster, Leonardo Miucci