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Eroica / Erard
Ludwig van Beethoven

Luca Montebugnoli

Eroica / Erard

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Format: CD
Label: Evil Penguin
UPC: 0608917724622
Catnr: EPRC 0059
Release date: 12 January 2024
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Evil Penguin
UPC
0608917724622
Catalogue number
EPRC 0059
Release date
12 January 2024

"You hear the expressive dynamic possibilities – the funeral march rumbles dully, the scherzo chimes cheerfully in the supple keys. In the finale, the hammering bass reveals other details."

De Volkskrant, 18-1-2024
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October 1803: On hearing Beethoven play the “Eroica” Symphony on his new Erard Frères piano, a witness remarked, “Heaven and Earth must shake at its performance.” Inspired by this historical scene, Luca Montebugnoli has created a new arrangement of the symphony designed for and played on a unique replica of Beethoven’s Erard piano. By delivering a novel interpretation of an iconic work, Montebugnoli revives the neglected art of piano arrangement, while also exploring the full potential of what was in Beethoven’s life a revolutionary instrument.

Octobre 1803 : en entendant Beethoven jouer sa Symphonie « Héroïque » sur son nouveau piano Erard, un témoin remarque : « Le ciel et la terre doivent trembler à cette exécution ». Inspiré par cette scène historique, Luca Montebugnoli a créé un nouvel arrangement de la symphonie, conçu pour être joué sur une réplique unique du piano Erard de Beethoven. En livrant une nouvelle interprétation d'une œuvre emblématique, il fait ainsi revivre l'art négligé de l'arrangement pour piano, tout en explorant le potentiel complet de ce qui fut, dans la vie de Beethoven, un instrument révolutionnaire.

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Luca Montebugnoli (piano)

Italian pianist and fortepianist, Luca Montebugnoli is a versatile performer, teacher and researcher. After graduating in modern piano at the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” of Rome, he moved to Paris to study period piano at National Conservatory in Paris with Patrick Cohen and at Sorbonne University with Edoardo Torbianelli, Piet Kuijken and Jeanne Roudet. He had also the opportunity to work with recognized musicians such as Malcolm Bilson, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Lonquich, Pierre Goy and Amandine Beyer. His performances reflect the variety of his musical interests. He regularly performs solo and chamber music recitals in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. Recently he founded the Ensemble Hexaméron, a flexible group on period instruments, whose project is to revive in all its diversity the practice...
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Italian pianist and fortepianist, Luca Montebugnoli is a versatile performer, teacher and researcher.

After graduating in modern piano at the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” of Rome, he moved to Paris to study period piano at National Conservatory in Paris with Patrick Cohen and at Sorbonne University with Edoardo Torbianelli, Piet Kuijken and Jeanne Roudet. He had also the opportunity to work with recognized musicians such as Malcolm Bilson, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Lonquich, Pierre Goy and Amandine Beyer.

His performances reflect the variety of his musical interests. He regularly performs solo and chamber music recitals in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. Recently he founded the Ensemble Hexaméron, a flexible group on period instruments, whose project is to revive in all its diversity the practice of chamber music with piano and the plural nature of its repertoire from the end of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century.

Very involved in musical education as well, he is piano and fortepiano Professor at Regional Conservatory of Paris and at Departmental Conservatory of Bobigny (Paris).

His research at the Orpheus Instituut focuses on the practice of the arrangement for accompanied piano in the Parisian salons of the first half of the nineteenth century.


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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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You hear the expressive dynamic possibilities – the funeral march rumbles dully, the scherzo chimes cheerfully in the supple keys. In the finale, the hammering bass reveals other details.
De Volkskrant, 18-1-2024

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