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Pianovariations

Ivo Janssen

Pianovariations

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525509603
Catnr: GLO 5096
Release date: 19 August 2002
1 CD
 
Label
Globe
UPC
8711525509603
Catalogue number
GLO 5096
Release date
19 August 2002
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
NL

About the album

Beroemde variaties van Brahms uitgevoerd door een getalenteerde pianist
De Variaties op een thema van Paganini van Brahms is niet zomaar een set met een thema en variaties, elke variatie heeft ook de vorm van een oefenstuk. Het werk uit 1863 bestaat uit twee boeken, die elk beginnen met het thema (Paganini’s Cappricio No. 24), gevolgd door veertien variaties. De variaties zijn bijzonder virtuoos, wat nogal ongebruikelijk is voor Brahms, en doen zelfs aan Liszt denken. Het werk staat bekend om zijn technische uitdagingen en emotionele diepgang. Clara Schumann noemde het werk ook wel de ‘Heksenvariaties’, vanwege de hoge moeilijkheidsgraad.

De Variaties en Fuga op een thema van Händel bestaat uit 25 variaties op een thema uit Händels Klavecimbelsuite No. 1, gevolgd door een afsluitende fuga. De première van het werk, die zeer succesvol was, werd op 7 december 1861 gespeeld door Clara Schumann. In januari 1863 speelde Brahms de variaties tijdens zijn ontmoeting met Wagner, die het werk complimenteerde, en beweerde dat “men kan zien wat men nog met de oude vormen kan doen als er iemand langskomt die weet hoe hij ze moet gebruiken.”

Ivo Janssen studeerde onder Jan Wijn, György Szebök en Andrzej Jansinski. Met zijn eerdere albums en concerten, met werken van onder andere Ravel, Chopin, en Prokofiev vestigde hij zich al snel als een van de belangrijkste pianisten van zijn generatie. Dit album is opnieuw een interessante bijdrage van een van de geweldige talenten van de jongere generatie van pianisten!

Artist(s)

Ivo Janssen (piano)

Since his debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1988 pianist Ivo Janssen (Venlo, 1963) performs regularly in the Netherlands, and also in Germany, France, Italy, Australia and the USA. He has performed with musicians such as Heinrich Schiff, Nobuko Imai, Han de Vries and Charlotte Margiono. For Globe, Ivo Janssen made a number of recordings including Brahms, Prokofiev, Chopin Preludes op. 28 and Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis, which the Hindemith Institute considered to be the best recording by far of this work. In 1994 he started a series of concerts which will eventually include performances and recordings of the complete keyboard works by J.S. Bach. In February 1998 the first album in this series was released, on his own label VOID Classics,...
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Since his debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1988 pianist Ivo Janssen (Venlo, 1963) performs regularly in the Netherlands, and also in Germany, France, Italy, Australia and the USA. He has performed with musicians such as Heinrich Schiff, Nobuko Imai, Han de Vries and Charlotte Margiono.
For Globe, Ivo Janssen made a number of recordings including Brahms, Prokofiev, Chopin Preludes op. 28 and Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis, which the Hindemith Institute considered to be the best recording by far of this work.
In 1994 he started a series of concerts which will eventually include performances and recordings of the complete keyboard works by J.S. Bach. In February 1998 the first album in this series was released, on his own label VOID Classics, which was especially started for this purpose. After recordings of the Goldberg Variations, Toccatas, French and English Suites, Partitas, the Well-tempered Clavier, and much more, the cycle was completed with a recording of The Art of Fugue in January 2007. His toccata! project, that combines Bach’s toccatas with toccatas especially written by a number of contemporary Dutch composers such as Louis Andriessen, Michiel Borstlap, Leo Samama and Christina Viola Oorebeek was received with much enthusiasm, in the Netherlands as well as abroad.
Since 2014 Ivo Janssen plays recitals in Janssenbeton, music below decks, a concert hall built by himself in a concrete ammunition barge in the centre of Amsterdam. However, he has decided to stop performing for the time being in the summer of 2019.

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Composer(s)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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01.
Variations on a theme by Robert SChumann in F sharp minor, OP 9: I. Theme - Variations 1-4
04:55
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Robert SChumann in F sharp minor, OP 9: II. Variations 5-8
04:30
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Robert SChumann in F sharp minor, OP 9: III. Variations 9-13
04:31
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Robert SChumann in F sharp minor, OP 9: IV. Variations 14-16
04:58
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: I. Aria - Variations 1-4
04:20
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: II. Variations 5-8
03:56
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: III. Variations 9-12
04:17
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: IV. Variations 13-18
05:04
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: V. Variations 19-21
03:36
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: VI. Variations 22-25
03:05
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations and fugueon a theme by Handel in B flat major, OP 24: VII. Fugue
05:19
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: I. Theme - Variations 1-4
03:04
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: II. Variations 5-8
02:09
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: III. Variations 9-12
05:34
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: IV. Variations 13-14
02:53
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: I. Theme - Variations 1-3
02:26
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: II. Variations 4-7
02:09
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: III. Variations 8-11
02:28
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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Variations on a theme by Paganini A minor , OP. 35: IV. Variations 12-14
03:59
(Johannes Brahms) Ivo Janssen
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