Credits:

Rudolf Buchbinder

Description:

Buchbinder's first album for Deutsche Grammophon is a trio of diabelli! Buchbinder, a well-known Beethoven player, has just released his first album for Deutsche Grammophon, which sheds new light on the "Diabelli" in this Beethoven year. Earlier in his career, Buchbinder recorded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, but this time he invited 12 contemporary composers to compose new variations on Diabelli's themes. Penderecki, Sichedrin, Brett Dean, Max Richter, Jörg Wittmann, Toshio Hosokawa, Leila Auerbach, Brad Loveman, Christian Jost, Philippe Manoury, Johannes Maria Staudt, and Tan Dun, twelve distinguished composers. Buchbinder's new commissions reflect the stories behind Diabelli's own original works, and the result is an album of three new variations: Diabelli's own attempt, published in 1824, Beethoven's famous "Diabelli Variations," and the newly created Variations. The new album is a collection of three different variations.In 1819, Anton Diabelli, a composer and music publisher, wrote a 32-bar "German Dance," a precursor to the waltz, and commissioned 50 composers to write one variation each. Among the composers sent requests were Czerny, who was only 8 years old at the time, and Liszt, who was 11. Diabelli received works from Schubert, Mozart's son Franz Xaver, Hummel, and others. Beethoven also received a commission, but he refused to compose it, perhaps because of the banality of its subject matter. Four years later, however, Beethoven wrote his own great work of 33 variations on Diabelli's theme. Later praised by conductor Hans von Bulow as "the epitome of Beethoven's genius," it was the composer's last large-scale piano work, and is still performed by pianists everywhere today as a supreme work of art. Universal Music/IMS

Tracklisting:

1.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Tema (Vivace)
2.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 1: Alla marcia maestoso
3.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 2: Poco allegro
4.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 3: L'istesso tempo
5.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 4: Un poco piu vivace
6.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 5: Allegro vivace
7.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 6: Allegro ma non troppo e serioso
8.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 7: Un poco piu allegro
9.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 8: Poco vivace
10.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 9: Allegro pesante e risoluto
11.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 10: Presto
12.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 11: Allegretto
13.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 12: Un poco piu moto
14.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 13: Vivace
15.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 14: Grave e maestoso
16.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 15: Presto scherzando
17.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 16: Allegro
18.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 17: Allegro
19.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 18: Poco moderato
20.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 19: Presto
21.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 20: Andante
22.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 21: Allegro con brio - Meno allegro - Tempo I
23.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 22: Allegro molto alla "Notte e giorno faticar" di Mozart
24.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 23: Allegro assai
25.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 24: Fughetta. Andante
26.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 25: Allegro
27.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 26: Piacevole
28.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 27: Vivace
29.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 28: Allegro
30.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 29: Adagio ma non troppo
31.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 30: Andante, sempre cantabile
32.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 31: Largo, molto espressivo
33.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 32: Fugue. Allegro - Poco adagio
34.33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in c major, Op. 120~Var. 33: Tempo di menuetto moderato (ma non tirarsi dietro)