Beethoven: Variations

 
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Variations
Angela Hewitt (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 2 October 2020

"No qualifications are required for Angela Hewitt's new Beethoven album..Hewitt's touch is remarkably nimble and poetic" The Times

The great 'Eroica' variations are the centrepiece of an album which, ending with two amusingly anglophile tributes, contains some surprisingly under-appreciated Beethoven. This is an
indispensable pendant to Angela Hewitt's ongoing survey of the piano sonatas.

'No qualifications are required for Angela Hewitt's new Beethoven album of seven variation sets, a couple of them trifling but fun (variations on Rule, Britannia! and God Save the King), but others bracing creations deserving of greater fame. Hewitt's touch is remarkably nimble and poetic' (The Times)

'Angela Hewitt's CD is very hard to beat indeed … I'm not usually a big fan of entire programmes of variations, but this particular recording is a delight from start to finish' (MusicWeb International)

Tracks:

1. 32 Variations on an original theme
in C minor WoO80 [13'00]
2. 6 Variations on an original theme
in F major Op 34 [14'27]
3. 15 Variations and a fugue on an
original theme 'Eroica' Op 35 [24'54]
4. 9 Variations on the aria 'Quant'è più bello'
from Paisiello's La molinara WoO69 [6'30]
5. 6 Variations on the duet 'Nel cor più non mi
sento' from La molinara WoO70 [5'51]
6. 7 Variations on
'God save the King' WoO78 [9'27]
7. 5 Variations on
'Rule, Britannia' WoO79 [5'31]