Ingrid Andsnes - 33 + 1 - Beethoven/Hagen [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Ingrid Andsnes, sister of the world-renowned Leif Ove Andsnes, makes her solo CD debut with the most demanding work in the piano literature, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, music that has become synonymous with the struggle and transformation in her own life.rr

Ingrid's first encounter with the Diabelli Variations as a performer came directly after a very challenging period of illness: 'I believe I had the Diabelli Variations 'thrown at me' because I needed exactly that music at exactly that time. I needed to play music that demanded so much power, strength, perseverance, endless dives into the music, with great technical challenges. Music that really pushes the envelope, beyond where you think it must end. I had to feel the passion, the great deep emotions, the vulnerability, and most important: the power. Reclaiming the control of unused muscles, strength and love. You could say that my life got the perfect soundtrack.'

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The publisher and composer Anton Diabelli invited his fellow composers of 1819 Vienna to write a variation on his own little waltz. Beethoven turned the proposition down, only to reconsider and write not one variation, but thirty-three! In 2015 Ingrid Andsnes invited composer and curator Lars Petter Hagen to add a cadenza to Beethoven's set of variations. Employing EBows on the strings of the piano to haunting effect, this cadenza replaces the short Poco Adagio before variation 33 in the present recording.

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Ingrid Andsnes (born in 1978) is a highly accomplished pianist and one of Norway's most endearingly passionate musicians. She studied with Joan Havill at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and, like her brother Leif Ove, with Jiri Hlinka at Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. She has collaborated with the finest of Norway's musicians, among them Solveig Kringelborn, Arve Tellefsen, Hxe5vard Gimse and The Norwegian Soloist Choir. In 2013 she played Beethoven's monumental Diabelli Variations in the play '33 Variations' by Moisxe9s Kaufman, staged at Det Norske Teateret in Oslo.

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'On this impressive recording, Ms. Andsnes brings clarity, rhythmic xe9lan and a touch of quirky playfulness to this demanding, audacious yet often humorous work.' - New York Times

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Personnel: Ingrid Andsnes (piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, Tema. Vivace

Variation 1: Alla Marcia maestoso

Variation 2: Poco Allegro

Variation 3: L'istesso tempo

Variation 4: Un poco pixf9 vivace

Variation 5: Allegro vivace

Variation 6: Allegro ma non troppo e serioso

Variation 7: Un poco pixf9 allegro

Variation 8: Poco vivace

Variation 9: Allegro pesante e risoluto

Variation 10: Presto

Variation 11: Allegretto

Variation 12: Un poco pixf9 moto

Variation 13: Vivace

Variation 14: Grave e maestoso

Variation 15: Presto scherzando

Variation 16: Allegro

Variation 17: Allegro

Variation 18: Poco moderato

Variation 19: Presto

Variation 20: Andante

Variation 21: Allegro con brio - Meno allegro - Tempo primo

Variation 22: Allegro molto, alla 'Notte e giorno faticar' di Mozart

Variation 23: Allegro assai

Variation 24: Fughetta (Andante)

Variation 25: Allegro

Variation 26: (Piacevole)

Variation 27: Vivace

Variation 28: Allegro

Variation 29: Adagio ma non troppo

Variation 30: Andante, sempre cantabile

Variation 31: Largo, molto espressivo

Variation 32: Fuga: Allegro

Lars Petter Hagen: Diabelli Cadenza - for piano and EBow

Variation 33: Tempo di Menuetto moderato

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