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CHILL WITH BEETHOVEN |
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Composer: |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Artist: |
Idil Biret, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Jeno Jando, Dong-Suk Kang, Maria Kliegel, Yehudi Menuhin, Peter Nagy, Takako Nishizaki, Mats Rondin, Konstantin Scherbakov, Urban Svensson, Balazs Szokolay, Stefan Vladar, Fritz Kreisler, Edwin Fischer, Walter Gieseking, Artur Schnabel, Hephzibah Menuhin, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Adolf Busch, Rudolf Serkin, Solomon, Nina Tichman, Ignaz Friedman, Franz Rupp, Peter Schmidl, Madoka Inui, Teodora Miteva, Nathan Milstein, Alfred Brendel, Ricardo Odnoposoff, Stefan Auber, Angelica Morales, Ronald Brautigam, Yukie Nagai, Clifford Curzon, Alfredo Perl, Ib Hausmann, Eugene Mursky, Graf Murzha, Katarina Andreasson, Gerhard Oppitz, Artur Balsam, Rolf Lindblom, Shura Cherkassky, Ania Dorfmann, Annie Fischer, Joseph Fuchs, Jorg Demus, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Maurice Gendron, Olli Mustonen, John Ogdon, Michael Schnitzler, Wolfgang Herzer, Julia Zilberquit, Boris Berezovsky, Ralph Manno, Guido Schiefen, Peter Rosel, Stanislav Bogunia, Walter Olbertz, Karl Suske, Dieter Zechlin, Davide Cabassi, Paul Lewis, Ursula Schoch, Petr Messiereur |
Conductor: |
Istvan Kertesz, Victor De Sabata, Hans Pfitzner, Frederik IX (King of Denmark), Malcolm Sargent, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Olli Mustonen, Zubin Mehta, Michael Halasz, Kenneth Jean, Rafael Kubelik, Karl Bohm, Kurt Sanderling, Klaus-Peter Hahn, Fritz Reiner, Jascha Horenstein, Otto Klemperer, Thomas Fey, Bertrand de Billy, Thomas Dausgaard, Bela Drahos, Richard Edlinger, William Steinberg, Bruno Walter, Ronald Zollman, Eugen Jochum, Bruno Weil, Roger Norrington, Antoni Wit, Barry Wordsworth, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Felix Weingartner, Jaap van Zweden, George Szell, Thomas Beecham, Eduard van Beinum, Claus Peter Flor, Heiko-Mathias Forster |
Orchestra: |
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Westphalia New Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra , Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra |
Label: |
Naxos |
Catalogue No.: |
8.556790 |
Format: |
CD |
Barcode: |
0730099679022 |
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Chill with Beethoven
Beethoven is often portrayed as an angry, wild and passionate figure whose music exemplifies the antithesis
of all things calm, peaceful and contemplative. Chill with Beethoven is a collection of some of the most
beautiful, wistful and romantic melodies ever penned by a classical composer. Beethoven was a giant in the
history of western classical music, and his compositions (including nine symphonies, five piano concertos,
ten violin sonatas, thirty-two piano sonatas) are often seen as the bridge between the restrained delicate
music of the Classical period he inherited from Haydn and Mozart to the stormy Romantic music that was to
follow with composers such as Brahms, Bruckner and Schumann.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in December, 1770, the son of Johann van Beethoven, a singer in
the service of the Archbishop of Cologne, and the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven, Kapellmeister to the
same patron, who died in 1773, but whose distinguished musical reputation lived on in the family. In 1789,
his mother now dead, young Ludwig van Beethoven took over responsibility for the family and his two
younger brothers.
At home Beethoven had received erratic practical training in music, but was able to follow a more consistent
course of study from 1781 with the court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe. In 1784 he entered the service of
the Archbishop as deputy court organist and playing the viola in the court orchestra, as occasion demanded.
In 1788 he was sent to Vienna, where he hoped to study with Mozart, but was recalled to Bonn by news of
his mother's final illness. In 1792 he went to Vienna once more, this time to study with Haydn. He remained
there for the rest of his life.
Beethoven established himself in Vienna at first as a virtuoso keyboard-player, his virtuosity including
improvisation at the keyboard and composition. He was helped by lessons from Albrechtsberger in
counterpoint and from the Court Composer Salieri in vocal and dramatic setting. His lessons from Haydn
proved less satisfactory. Armed with suitable introductions, he was able to make influential friends among the
aristocracy and it was with their support that he continued his career in Vienna, even when increasing
deafness made performance at first difficult and eventually impossible.
It is a tribute to the discernment of Beethoven's patrons that they perceived his genius, in spite of his
wildness and increasing eccentricities of character partially due to the frustrations of his deafness. In Vienna,
Beethoven lived through turbulent times. He died in March 1827, his death the occasion for public mourning
in Vienna at the passing of a long familiar figure whose like the city was not to see again.
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