Artist: Kent Nagano, Mari Kodama
Title: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 0-5
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Berlin Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC [Tracks, 24 bit/88.2kHz]
Total Time: 04:30:04 min
Total Size: 3,92 Gb (+1%rec.)
Together with the Berlin-based Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) Mari Kodama and her husband Kent Nagano have now completed the recording of all of Beethoven's piano concertos by jumping, as it were, back in time twice: the last element of this recording series that has spanned more than 13 years was Beethoven's concerto "number nought" (WoO 4) – personally edited by Mari Kodama from the autograph score.
The original manuscript of this piano concerto is kept at the State Library in Berlin. This is not a completed score, because there is no orchestration. That said, Beethoven annotated the short score, especially in the first two movements, with indications as to which instrument was to play which part. The orchestra score which is available today was written in the early twentieth century based on those annotations. The only problem is: "Today, armed with the knowledge we now have acquired about the young Beethoven, we would perform this concerto quite differently in places," explain Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano in unison. They therefore present a very personal adaptation that emerged during rehearsal with the orchestra and at the recording sessions, and which reflects Kodama's and Nagano's individual image of Beethoven. They aim to make audible the exuberant freshness and urgent sense of awakening in the young, almost childlike Beethoven's writing shortly before his artistic powers were to burst forth, the joie de vivre and vital energy in a style that owes something to the playfulness of both Haydn and Mozart. That is Mari Kodama's intention, and she plays it in precisely such a versatile manner.
Combined with the classical canon of the piano concertos nos. 1–5, the resulting comprehensive edition is complemented by the Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello op. 56, the Rondo WoO 6 and the Eroica Variations op. 35, offering insight into the artist's longstanding involvement with her musical companion Ludwig van Beethoven. And the recordings of his works seem to lead the listener through the composer's life. "If you play all of them, it is like accompanying Beethoven on a journey through his life," explains Mari Kodama, and Kent Nagano adds: "You acknowledge the musical genius and at the same time you recognise the development of European music, because Beethoven was undoubtedly its pioneer." He led the way in changing the structure, form and harmony of music, just as there was an equally radical shift in the world around him; after the French Revolution society and business and the incipient industrial revolution began to alter the way people lived.
Tracklist
Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4
1. I. Allegro moderato (10:37)
2. II. Larghetto (7:36)
3. III. Rondo. Allegretto (7:37)
4. Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat Major, WoO 6. Allegro (8:40)
Eroica Variations, Op. 35
5. Introduction. Allegro vivace (2:46)
6. Theme (0:42)
7. Variation 1 (0:42)
8. Variation 2 (0:56)
9. Variation 3 (0:41)
10. Variation 4 (0:35)
11. Variation 5 (0:45)
12. Variation 6 (0:38)
13. Variation 7. Canone all'ottava (0:41)
14. Variation 8 (1:03)
15. Variation 9 (0:40)
16. Variation 10 (0:42)
17. Variation 11 (0:46)
18. Variation 12 (0:43)
19. Variation 13 (0:50)
20. Variation 14 (minore) (1:07)
21. Variation 15. Largo (maggiore) - Attacca coda (5:11)
22. Finale (alla Fuga). Allegro con brio (5:08)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
23. I. Allegro con brio (17:33)
24. II. Largo (10:59)
25. III. Rondo. Allegro scherzando (9:06)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19
26. I. Allegro con brio (14:16)
27. II. Adagio (9:30)
28. III. Rondo. Molto allegro (6:15)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
29. I. Allegro con brio (16:22)
30. II. Largo (9:54)
31. III. Rondo. Allegro (9:13)
Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
32. I. Allegro (17:09)
33. II. Largo (4:56)
34. III. Rondo alla polacca (12:29)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
35. I. Allegro moderato (19:07)
36. II. Andante con moto (5:18)
37. III. Rondo vivace (10:13)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73
38. I. Allegro (20:44)
39. II. Adagio un poco mosso (7:20)
40. III. Rondo. Allegro (10:34)
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