See Siang Wong – Beethoven Trilogy 3: Unheard (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pianist See Siang Wong completes his Beethoven trilogy with “Unheard”. The third album features unfinished, previously unheard works by Beethoven. In his sketchbooks, which he always carried with him, Beethoven jotted down ideas and musical experiments that he often never realised and which have survived today as fragments in libraries and private collections all over the world. “Unheard” brings together reconstructions and rarities based on such sketches. They show Beethoven’s incredible wealth of ideas and his creative power.

The album includes the Piano Sonata op. 109 in E major, which was composed by the Swiss pianist and composer Jürg Wyttenbach on the basis of Beethoven’s own sketches; the “Composition in D major”, long thought to be lost, about which See Siang Wong says: “You can tell from the manuscript that Beethoven worked intensively on this work. It contains many comments on his musical ideas as well as numerous corrections and variations. In my opinion, this unfinished work by the young Beethoven is one of the most groundbreaking and exciting from this creative period.” Also on the album is the “Concerto in D major for pianoforte” with orchestra, which the influential musicologist Guido Adler discovered in 1888 and attributed to Beethoven. Nowadays, there are still debates as to who the composer of this lively, joyful piece was: Beethoven or perhaps the composer himself?

A highlight of the album is certainly the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major No. 6, which See Siang Wong recorded with the Camerata Schweiz and conductor Howard Griffiths in 2021. It is reminiscent of the famous Piano Concerto No. 5 and the Choral Fantasy. Here, too, the piano plays some large-scale cadenzas and march rhythms. Most likely inspired by the political situation in Europe at the time, it also already displays characteristics of the symphonic concerto.

An album with works by Beethoven that you have never heard before!

Tracklist:
01. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: I. Vivace, ma non troppo (03:41)
02. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: II. Prestissimo (01:26)
03. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109: Trio. A tempo (00:37)
04. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: II. Prestissimo (Continuation) (01:08)
05. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo (Elaborations by See Siang Wong) (02:36)
06. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, III. – Var. 1: Molto espressivo (02:09)
07. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 1: Andante con moto (01:51)
08. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, III. – Var. 2: Leggiermente (01:36)
09. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 2: Allegro (00:33)
10. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 3: Andante piacevole (02:11)
11. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, III. – Var. 3: Allegro vivace (00:27)
12. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, III. – Var. 4: Un poco meno andante ciò è un poco più adagio come il tema (02:25)
13. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 4: Allegro (00:54)
14. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 5a: Allegro (00:31)
15. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 5b: Allegro – Var. 5a (Continuation) (00:56)
16. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, III. – Var. 5: Allegro ma non troppo (00:52)
17. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, III. – Var. 6: Andante un po’ Adagio (02:18)
18. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, III. – Var. 6: Tempo I del tema. Cantabile (02:09)
19. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Cantabile (tema) (01:34)
20. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Completed Sketches for Piano Sonata, Op. 109, II. Prestissimo (Trio), Version 2 (00:32)
21. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D Major, Unv 12/Biamonti 213: I. Allegro (06:21)
22. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D Major, Unv 12/Biamonti 213: II. Andante (07:03)
23. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Concerto in D Major, Op. 15 (Attributed by error to Beethoven): I. Allegro (Cadenza by See Siang Wong) (12:31)
24. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 6 in D Major, Hess 15/Biamonti 641: I. Allegro (Cadenza by See Siang Wong) (13:01)
25. See Siang Wong – Beethoven: Albumblatt (After Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109) (01:25)