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Beethoven and his French Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt, Louis Adam

Tom Beghin

Beethoven and his French Piano

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Format: CD
Label: Evil Penguin
UPC: 0608917722321
Catnr: EPRC 0036
Release date: 06 November 2020
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Evil Penguin
UPC
0608917722321
Catalogue number
EPRC 0036
Release date
06 November 2020
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About the album

In 1803 Beethoven received a piano from Erard Frères in Paris. Why had he been so keen to own a French instrument and how did it inspire him, both as a pianist and a composer? The answer may lie in these performances on a new replica of Beethoven’s French piano, created as part of a unique research project. Placing the iconic “Waldstein” and “Appassionata” sonatas alongside equally grand pieces by two of his Parisian contemporaries, they reveal an unfamiliar French aspect to Beethoven’s genius.

1803 erhielt Beethoven ein Klavier von Erard Frères in Paris. Warum war er so sehr daran interessiert, ein französisches Instrument zu besitzen, und wie inspirierte ihn dies, sowohl als Pianist als auch als Komponist? Die Antwort könnte in diesen Aufführungen auf einem neuen Nachbau von Beethovens französischem Klavier liegen, der im Rahmen eines einzigartigen Forschungsprojekts geschaffen wurde. Indem sie die ikonischen "Waldstein"- und "Appassionata"-Sonaten neben ebenso großartigen Stücken von zwei seiner Pariser Zeitgenossen platzieren, bringen sie in Beethovens Genie einen unbekannten französischen Aspekt zum Vorschein.

Artist(s)

Tom Beghin (clavichord)

Tom Beghin combines a career as performer with that of researcher and teacher. His published work spans different media, from commercially released CDs and films to academic essays and books. His work on Beethoven's 1803 Erard piano resulted in the book Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration (Chicago, 2022, winner of the American Musical Instrument Society's 2024 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize) and a double CD (Evil Penguin Records, 2020, winner of the 2020 Caecilia Prize from the Belgian Music Press). The year 2017 saw the birth of Inside the Hearing Machine, an amalgam of publications on Beethoven's late piano sonatas and deafness. His monograph The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist (Chicago, 2015) followed his recording of the complete solo Haydn keyboard works (Naxos 2009/2011, nominated for...
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Tom Beghin combines a career as performer with that of researcher and teacher. His published work spans different media, from commercially released CDs and films to academic essays and books. His work on Beethoven's 1803 Erard piano resulted in the book Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration (Chicago, 2022, winner of the American Musical Instrument Society's 2024 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize) and a double CD (Evil Penguin Records, 2020, winner of the 2020 Caecilia Prize from the Belgian Music Press). The year 2017 saw the birth of Inside the Hearing Machine, an amalgam of publications on Beethoven's late piano sonatas and deafness. His monograph The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist (Chicago, 2015) followed his recording of the complete solo Haydn keyboard works (Naxos 2009/2011, nominated for a Juno Award by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). He also co-edited Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric (Chicago, 2007, winner of the 2009 American Musicological Society's Ruth Solie Award).
Alumnus of the HIP-doctoral program at Cornell University, Tom Beghin served on the faculties of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Schulich School of Music, of McGill University (Montreal). Since 2015, Prof. Beghin has been Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Orpheus Institute for Advanced Studies & Research in Music, in Ghent, Belgium, and since 2024 holds a professorship again at KU Leuven. His research cluster, Declassifying the Classics, focuses on the intersections of technology, rhetoric, and performance.


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Composer(s)

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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Disc #1
01.
Concerto in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto, “2da parte”
01:46
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
02.
Méthode de piano du Conservatoire: Exercise No. 48
00:33
(Louis Adam) Tom Beghin
03.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 8, No. 2: Allegro di molto
15:12
(Louis Adam) Tom Beghin
04.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 8, No. 2: Romance: Andante grazioso un peu animé / Adagio non troppo
10:46
(Louis Adam) Tom Beghin
05.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 8, No. 2: Finale Scherzando: Allegro vivace
05:54
(Louis Adam) Tom Beghin
06.
“Eroica” Sketchbook: Excercise
00:37
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
07.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”: Allegro con brio
16:47
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
08.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”: Allegretto (WoO 56)
01:55
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
09.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”: Andante grazioso con moto (WoO 57)
08:39
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
10.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”: Introduzione: Adagio molto—Rondo: Allegretto moderato / Prestissimo
12:33
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
11.
Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”: Introduzione: Adagio molto
03:09
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin

Disc #2
01.
Sonata in F Major, Op. 54: In Tempo d’un Menuetto
05:59
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
02.
Sonata in F Major, Op. 54: Allegretto / Più allegro
06:54
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
03.
Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”: Allegro assai
10:41
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
04.
Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”: Andante con moto
05:38
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
05.
Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”: Allegro ma non troppo / Presto
08:42
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Tom Beghin
06.
Sonata in G Major, Op. 64: Cantabile con espressione
22:19
(Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt) Tom Beghin
07.
Sonata in G Major, Op. 64: Tempo di Minuetto: Scherzando
02:55
(Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt) Tom Beghin
08.
Sonata in G Major, Op. 64: Adagio: Fantaisie
11:45
(Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt) Tom Beghin
09.
Sonata in G Major, Op. 64: Pastorale: Allegretto
07:39
(Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt) Tom Beghin
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