Artist(s): Weng, Larry
Label: Naxos
Genre: Instrumental
Period: Classical
Catalogue No: 8.573939
Barcode: 747313393978
Release Date: 05/2019

BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Variations, WoO 65, 69, 72, 75 / Piano Sonata, WoO 51 (Larry Weng)

Even so great a composer as Beethoven wrote music that is now almost completely neglected and unperformed. This sequence brings together a portfolio of such works that focuses on his variations on popular operatic music of the time by Giovanni Paisiello, Peter Winter and André Grétry, and includes the witty and inventive variations on an arietta by Vincenzo Righini. The Piano Sonata in C major, WoO 51 was found among Beethoven’s papers after his death and published in 1830. While it lacks a finale, it too offers a revealing look at an overlooked composition as do the two charming and unusual waltzes.

Tracklist

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Weng, Larry (piano)
17 Variations in F Major on the quartet Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen from Winter's Das unterbrochene Opferfest, WoO 7511:42
Weng, Larry (piano)
Weng, Larry (piano)
29 Variations in A Major on the aria Quant' è più bello from Paisiello's La molinara, WoO 6905:49
Weng, Larry (piano)
Weng, Larry (piano)
3Waltz in E-Flat Major, WoO 8401:50
Weng, Larry (piano)
Weng, Larry (piano)
4Waltz in D Major, WoO 8500:36
Weng, Larry (piano)
Weng, Larry (piano)
5I. Allegro04:48
Weng, Larry (piano)
6II. Adagio (completed by F. Ries)02:56
Weng, Larry (piano)
Weng, Larry (piano)
78 Variations in C Major on the romance Une fièvre brûlante from Grétry's Richard Coeur-de-lion, WoO 7207:23
Weng, Larry (piano)
Weng, Larry (piano)
824 Variations in D Major on Righini's arietta Venni amore, WoO 6524:18
Weng, Larry (piano)

Total Playing Time: 59:22