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In the 250th Beethoven anniversary year, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has chosen this programme of works by contemporary composers to illuminate and contextualise Beethoven’s extraordinary output for piano. In his explanatory note for the album, the pianist writes: ‘Just as a mountain peak is always surrounded by other perhaps less lofty but no less fascinating summits, the major works of Beethoven are not isolated rock formations rising from the desert, but, as it were, “Himalayas”, forming part of a range in which other mountains might be the best pieces by contemporaries such as Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, and Wölfl. These composers all knew Beethoven well and were in contact with one another. It is essential to know and to make known their music in order better to understand and more thoroughly appreciate the lingua franca of the music of the time, which in turn is part and parcel of the “spirit of the age”, and to be aware of that which unites them, as well as to recognise that which differentiates them and renders each unique. In this year of plentiful Beethovenian commemorations, it appears to me natural, indeed essential, to pay admiring and enthusiastic homage to these composers, each of whom, in his own way, followed his route to the summit.’ © Chandos
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Sonata, Op. 33 No. 3 (Joseph Wolfl)
Joseph Wölfl, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Joseph Wölfl, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Joseph Wölfl, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Sonata, Op. 50 No. 1 (Muzio Clementi)
Muzio CLEMENTI, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Muzio CLEMENTI, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Muzio CLEMENTI, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Sonata No. 3, Op. 20 (Johann Nepomuk Hummel)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Sonata, Op. 61, C. 211 (Jan Ladislav Dussek)
Jan Ladislav Dussek, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
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Jan Ladislav Dussek, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
2020 Chandos Records 2020 Chandos Records
Jan Ladislav Dussek, Composer - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano, MainArtist
2020 Chandos Records 2020 Chandos Records
Album review
In the 250th Beethoven anniversary year, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has chosen this programme of works by contemporary composers to illuminate and contextualise Beethoven’s extraordinary output for piano. In his explanatory note for the album, the pianist writes: ‘Just as a mountain peak is always surrounded by other perhaps less lofty but no less fascinating summits, the major works of Beethoven are not isolated rock formations rising from the desert, but, as it were, “Himalayas”, forming part of a range in which other mountains might be the best pieces by contemporaries such as Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, and Wölfl. These composers all knew Beethoven well and were in contact with one another. It is essential to know and to make known their music in order better to understand and more thoroughly appreciate the lingua franca of the music of the time, which in turn is part and parcel of the “spirit of the age”, and to be aware of that which unites them, as well as to recognise that which differentiates them and renders each unique. In this year of plentiful Beethovenian commemorations, it appears to me natural, indeed essential, to pay admiring and enthusiastic homage to these composers, each of whom, in his own way, followed his route to the summit.’ © Chandos
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:22:26
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Chandos
- Genre: Classical
2020 Chandos Records 2020 Chandos Records
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