Beethoven 24 Variations on "Venni Amore" by Righini WoO 65 (1790) скачать в хорошем качестве

Beethoven 24 Variations on "Venni Amore" by Righini WoO 65 (1790)

Beethoven loved the theme and variations form, and used it extensively throughout his life, both for stand alone compositions and also as individual movements of his larger works (sonatas, chamber works and symphonies). It fit very well with his own compositional predilections, where he often deconstructs a theme, breaking it down into its individual components which are then used to develop the entire piece. The variation form was an ideal format for Beethoven to explore this style of composition and he wrote most of his variations for solo piano when he was a young man, before moving on to more serious works. It was also a popular form for pianists to showcase their talents at private gatherings and in friendly competitions with other pianists. Beethoven was known also as a great improviser, and some of his early variations may be based on some of these extemporized performances, usually with a contemporarily popular tune from operas or ballets as a theme. The Righini variations are a very early work, written in his home town of Bonn just before he left to make his mark in the big city of Vienna. There is a great deal of maturity evident in these variations, and indeed for many years they were thought to have been extensively revised about a dozen years after they first appeared, although this turned out to not be the case. Their length alone set them apart from all his other early sets, and only two much later works are longer. Several of the variations are noteworthy. Although there is no fugal variation number's VII, XIX and XXI are highly canonic in nature. Number XIV is in alternating tempi and meter, while numbers XVIII and XX show Beethoven's sense of playfulness and humor. In number XXIII the theme is utterly transformed from its initial simplistic statement into a lengthy Adagio Sostenuto of great ornamental beauty. Here Beethoven even incorporates the rests from the first measures of the theme as part of the variation. After this penultimate 3 minutes of tenderness the final variation is a boisterous romp that roams through various keys and tempos before finally dying away. Download the mp3 at:http://nhpianos.com/audio/beethoven-w...