Rudolf Buchbinder – The Diabelli Project (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Rudolf Buchbinder – The Diabelli Project (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:45 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Celebrated pianist and renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolf Buchbinder will release his first album on Deutsche Grammophon. The collaboration sees him record not only his own new interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations but to commission 12 new variations himself, echoing the original story where in 1819 music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli wrote a 32-bar German Dance – a forerunner of the waltz – and sent it to more than 50 Austrian composers, asking each of them to write a variation on his original theme.

Buchbinder has invited 12 contemporary composers to write a variation on Diabelli’s theme including (in order of appearance) Lera Auerbach (*1973), Brett Dean (*1961), Toshio Hosokawa (*1955), Christian Jost (*1963), Brad Lubman (*1962), Philippe Manoury (*1952), Krzysztof Penderecki (*1933), Max Richter (*1966), Rodion Shchedrin (*1932), Johannes Maria Staud (*1974), Tan Dun (*1957) and Jörg Widmann (*1973).

At the time, Diabelli received contributions from Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), Frédéric Kalkbrenner (1785-1849), Conradin Kreutzer (1780-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), who was barely eight years old when the invitation was issued, Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791-1844), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Carl Czerny (1791-1857). Buchbinder has included these 8 variations that the original composer Diabelli received back on the album as well.

Beethoven initially refused to write anything, and supposedly dismissed the theme for its banality – but four years later he sent the publisher his own Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. The set, later hailed by conductor Hans von Bülow as a “microcosm of Beethoven’s genius”, turned out to be the composer’s last completed large-scale piano work.

Tracklist:
01. Rudolf Buchbinder – Tema (Vivace) (00:46)
02. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 1 (Alla marcia maestoso) (01:15)
03. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 2 (Poco allegro) (00:45)
04. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 3 (L’istesso tempo) (01:29)
05. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 4 (Un poco più vivace) (01:10)
06. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 5 (Allegro vivace) (00:51)
07. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 6 (Allegro ma non troppo e serioso) (01:28)
08. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 7 (Un poco più allegro) (01:01)
09. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 8 (Poco vivace) (01:17)
10. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 9 (Allegro pesante e risoluto) (01:39)
11. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 10 (Presto) (00:36)
12. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 11 (Allegretto) (01:06)
13. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 12 (Un poco più moto) (00:54)
14. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 13 (Vivace) (00:56)
15. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 14 (Grave e maestoso) (03:10)
16. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 15 (Presto scherzando) (00:33)
17. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 16 (Allegro) (00:57)
18. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 17 (Allegro) (01:01)
19. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 18 (Poco moderato) (01:46)
20. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 19 (Presto) (00:57)
21. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 20 (Andante) (01:52)
22. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 21 (Allegro con brio. Meno allegro) (00:57)
23. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 22 (Allegro molto, alla ‘Notte e giorno faticar’ di Mozart) (00:37)
24. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 23 (Allegro assai) (00:49)
25. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 24 (Fughetta. Andante) (02:06)
26. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 25 (Allegro) (00:40)
27. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 26 (Piacevole) (01:14)
28. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 27 (Vivace) (00:54)
29. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 28 (Allegro) (00:58)
30. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 29 (Adagio ma non troppo) (01:10)
31. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 30 (Andante, sempre cantabile) (01:50)
32. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 31 (Largo, molto espressivo) (03:53)
33. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 32 (Fugue. Allegro) (02:56)
34. Rudolf Buchbinder – Var. 33 (Tempo di Minuet moderato) (04:02)
35. Rudolf Buchbinder – Auerbach: Diabellical Waltz (05:19)
36. Rudolf Buchbinder – Dean: Variation for Rudi (03:27)
37. Rudolf Buchbinder – Hosokawa: Verlust (05:02)
38. Rudolf Buchbinder – Jost: Rock it Rudi (02:05)
39. Rudolf Buchbinder – Lubman: Variation for R.B. (02:41)
40. Rudolf Buchbinder – Manoury: Zwei Jahrhunderte später (01:12)
41. Rudolf Buchbinder – Richter: Diabelli (02:45)
42. Rudolf Buchbinder – Shchedrin: Variation on a Theme of Diabelli (02:05)
43. Rudolf Buchbinder – Staud: A propos de…Diabelli (02:19)
44. Rudolf Buchbinder – Tan Dun: Blue Orchid (04:47)
45. Rudolf Buchbinder – Widmann: Diabelli-Variation (03:36)
46. Rudolf Buchbinder – Hummel: Var. 16 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:02)
47. Rudolf Buchbinder – Kalkbrenner: Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:00)
48. Rudolf Buchbinder – Kreutzer: Var. 21 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:01)
49. Rudolf Buchbinder – Liszt: Var. 24 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:02)
50. Rudolf Buchbinder – Moscheles: Var. 26 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:04)
51. Rudolf Buchbinder – F.X.W. Mozart: Var. 28 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:37)
52. Rudolf Buchbinder – Schubert: Var. 38 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (01:57)
53. Rudolf Buchbinder – Czerny: Var. 6 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz (02:45)

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