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Veteran pianist Andrew Rangell has had a long career building unusual programs of Romantic music that find direct ways of communicating with audiences, and he makes a natural choice for the Steinway & Sons house piano-music label. Here he devises an effective mixture of Beethoven sonatas and lesser-known works, which he rightly argues are too often collected into sets of their own rather than programmed with sonatas in explorations of the relationships among the great and the small. Some of his lesser-known works are in fact almost unheard obscurities, such as the 24 Variations on Righini's "Venni amore," WoO 65, composed by the 20-year-old Beethoven in 1790. It is a delightfully ambitious variation set that fully prefigures the better-known ones from later in Beethoven's career, and Rangell plays it for all it's worth. Many of the other small pieces are equally good. Some seem as though they were on their way to being sonata movements. There are two other variation sets, one of them on "Rule, Brittania!," and one big public showpiece, the Polonaise in C major, Op. 89, written for the dignitaries attending the Congress of Vienna in 1814. Other gems include a bagatelle (for Beethoven, this term perversely seems to have indicated an especially experimental little piece) and a couple of fascinating, inward, late works that could easily have found their ways into the late Op. 126 bagatelle sets. The four sonatas, including the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"), are well-chosen for this context; each of them consists, at least mostly, of collections of shorter movements defined experimentally by mood or texture rather than by extensive sonata forms. The mood is broken a bit by the inclusion of a transcription, Rangell's own, of the "Allegretto ma non troppo" from the String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95. Nonetheless, a fascinating Beethoven recital, beautifully recorded at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts.
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Polonaise in C Major, Op. 89 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Major, Op. 54 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
24 Variations in D Major on Righini's Arietta Venni amore, WoO 65 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
6 Ecossaises in E-Flat Major, WoO 83 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31 No. 3 "La chasse" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Presto in C Minor, WoO 52 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
DISC 2
5 Variations on "Rule Britannia", WoO 79 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 "Serioso" (Anonyme)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Anonymous, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Allegretto in B Minor, WoO 61 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28 "Pastoral" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Allegretto in C Minor, WoO 53 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Major, Op. 34 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Bagatelle in B-Flat Major, WoO 60 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Andrew Rangell, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
Album review
Veteran pianist Andrew Rangell has had a long career building unusual programs of Romantic music that find direct ways of communicating with audiences, and he makes a natural choice for the Steinway & Sons house piano-music label. Here he devises an effective mixture of Beethoven sonatas and lesser-known works, which he rightly argues are too often collected into sets of their own rather than programmed with sonatas in explorations of the relationships among the great and the small. Some of his lesser-known works are in fact almost unheard obscurities, such as the 24 Variations on Righini's "Venni amore," WoO 65, composed by the 20-year-old Beethoven in 1790. It is a delightfully ambitious variation set that fully prefigures the better-known ones from later in Beethoven's career, and Rangell plays it for all it's worth. Many of the other small pieces are equally good. Some seem as though they were on their way to being sonata movements. There are two other variation sets, one of them on "Rule, Brittania!," and one big public showpiece, the Polonaise in C major, Op. 89, written for the dignitaries attending the Congress of Vienna in 1814. Other gems include a bagatelle (for Beethoven, this term perversely seems to have indicated an especially experimental little piece) and a couple of fascinating, inward, late works that could easily have found their ways into the late Op. 126 bagatelle sets. The four sonatas, including the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"), are well-chosen for this context; each of them consists, at least mostly, of collections of shorter movements defined experimentally by mood or texture rather than by extensive sonata forms. The mood is broken a bit by the inclusion of a transcription, Rangell's own, of the "Allegretto ma non troppo" from the String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95. Nonetheless, a fascinating Beethoven recital, beautifully recorded at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 02:30:40
- Main artists: Andrew Rangell
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Steinway and Sons
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2017 Steinway and Sons (P) 2017 Steinway and Sons
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