Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – The Beethoven Connection, Vol. 1 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – The Beethoven Connection, Vol. 1 (2020)
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In the 250th Beethoven anniversary year, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has chosen this programme of works by contemporary composers to illuminate and contextualise Beethoven’s extraordinary output for piano. In his explanatory note for the album, the pianist writes: ‘Just as a mountain peak is always surrounded by other perhaps less lofty but no less fascinating summits, the major works of Beethoven are not isolated rock formations rising from the desert, but, as it were, “Himalayas”, forming part of a range in which other mountains might be the best pieces by contemporaries such as Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, and Wölfl. These composers all knew Beethoven well and were in contact with one another. It is essential to know and to make known their music in order better to understand and more thoroughly appreciate the lingua franca of the music of the time, which in turn is part and parcel of the “spirit of the age”, and to be aware of that which unites them, as well as to recognise that which differentiates them and renders each unique. In this year of plentiful Beethovenian commemorations, it appears to me natural, indeed essential, to pay admiring and enthusiastic homage to these composers, each of whom, in his own way, followed his route to the summit.’

Tracklist:

1. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 33 No. 3: I. Allegro (08:01)
2. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 33 No. 3: II. Andante cantabile (02:29)
3. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 33 No. 3: III. Rondo. Allegretto (04:24)
4. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 50 No. 1: I. Allegro maestoso e con sentimento (08:34)
5. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 50 No. 1: II. Adagio sostenuto e patetico – Canone. Andante con moto (05:28)
6. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 50 No. 1: III. Allegro vivace (07:47)
7. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 20: I. Allegro moderato – Adagio (09:23)
8. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 20: II. Adagio maestoso (07:01)
9. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 20: III. Finale. Presto – Ancor più presto (04:35)
10. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 61, C. 211 “Elégie harmonique”: I. Lento patetico – Tempo agitato (11:34)
11. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 61, C. 211 “Elégie harmonique”: II. Tempo vivace e con fuoco quasi presto (05:22)
12. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Musical Illustrations (After Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek & Hummel) (07:48)

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