A recent CD of Beethoven piano pieces played by Tobias Koch on period instruments contains several items that will be of interest to our readers. These pieces appear to be world premiere recordings. The first of these is a familiar piece, the so-called Easy Sonata in C, WoO 51. A …
Orchestrations of the Piano Sonatas op. 109 – 111 ( www.gerdprengel.de/orchestrations.html ) by Gerd Prengel This summer I was hiking through a beautiful countryside in the area of my hometown Darmstadt while listening to Beethoven’s wonderful Andante from the late piano sonata op. 109. As I was listening, I think it …
The International Beethoven Project presented the world premiere of the song “Liebe” or “Ich wiege dich in meinem Arm” (Hess 137) at the Chicago Beethoven Festival on Sunday, September 8, 2013. Lost since 1822, and known only by a scrawling of its first line in a price list sent by …
I have admired the Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta ever since I discovered in the old record collection of my father his performances of Handel’s Concerto op.4 nr.6 (with the great Grandjany cadenza in the slow movement) and Debussy’s Danses Sacrées et Profanes (Ferenc Fricsay conducting, DGG LPE 17115). These recordings …