BEETHOVEN/SCHUMANN: Piano Variations

Catalog Number: RRC1230
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD

Categories: Instrumental Music
Budget Periods: Romantic

Composers: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Robert Schumann
Performers: Sviatoslav Richter

Available: 9
Price: $8.99

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

6 Variations for Piano in F major, Op. 34;
6 Variations in D major, Op. 76

15 Variations in E flat major on Prometheus theme Op. 35 "Eroica"

Robert Schumann (1770-1827)

Novetten, Op. 21: Nos 2, 4, 8

Sviatoslav Richter, piano

	Track Listing	Time
1	Beethoven: Six Variations in F major, Op. 34 Thema: Adagio - Variation I - Variation II: Allegro ma non troppo - Variation III: Allegretto - Variation IV: Tempo di menuetto - Variation V: Marcia. Allegretto - Variation VI: Allegretto - adagio molt	13:18
2	Six variations in D major, Op. 76 Thema: Allegro risoluto - Variation I-V - Variation VI: Presto - Tempo I	5:52
	*15 Variations and Fugue in E flat major, on Prometheus* theme, Op. 35 "Eroica"**
3	Introduzione col basso del tema, Allegretto vivace - a due - a tre a quattro - Tema	3:58
4	Variation I	0:34
5	Variation II	0:38
6	Variation III	0:42
7	Variation IV	0:39
8	Variation V	0:49
9	Variation VI	0:34
10	Variation VII: Canone alla ottava	0:35
11	Variation VIII	0:48
12	Variation IX	0:41
13	Variation X	0:38
14	Variation XI	0:43
15	Variation XII	0:42
16	Variation XIII	0:38
17	Variation XIV: Minore	1:14
18	Variation XV: Maggiore. Largo	4:54
19	Finale: Alla fuga - Allegro con brio - Andante con moto	4:36
	Schumann: Noveletten Nos. 2, 4, 8 from Opus 21
20	No. 2 in D major	5:56
21	No. 4 in D major	3:27
22	No. 8 in F# minor	11:27

(Beethoven) " There is a richness in the Beethoven variations that it seems pointless and unfair to highlight any one in particular. The D major set uses the Ruins of Athens theme. It is pretty uproarious, with Richter conveying a terrific sense of fun. The Eroica Variations has its light moments as well...fugue, finale, very much faster than normal, it is so extraordinarily exhilarating that it ends the work in triumph, With Richter palying most pianists under the table."
(Schumann) "Sheer unassailable authority of sound is perhaps the first striking thing about the...Novelletes; next is the extraordinary penetration into the secret corners of these crypto-narrative structures...loud bravo at the end is annoying but understandable."
Gramophone