Informationen zu "Ludvig van Beethoven Arr: Christopher Field Adagio Cantabile Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1067
EAN: 9990093814473
Beschreibung
Ludvig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was the important link between the late
Classical period and the beginning of the Romantic age. He composed in almost
every genre, creating a body of orchestral, vocal and instrumental music
which is still at the very heart of the repertoire into the 21st-century. He
was happy to 'tear-up' the rule book of his time, creating one masterpiece
after another. Beethoven's music has been transcribed for many instruments
and 'Beethoven 250' in 2020, the 250th anniversary of his birth in 1770, has
seen a resurgence of interest in the many double bass transcriptions of his
work. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Op.13) was composed in 1798, when the
composer was 27 years old, and was published the following year. It is one of
Beethoven's most celebrated and popular works and is dedicated to his friend
Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. It was named Grande sonate pathétique (to
Beethoven's liking) by the original publisher, who was impressed by the
sonata's tragic sonorities and solemnity. The second movement (Adagio
Cantabile) has been transposed a semitone lower in this transcription, with a
most beautiful and evocative theme which is repeated three times, and has
echoes of an episode in Mozart's Piano Sonata No.14 K.457. It emphasises the
lyrical and cantabile range of the double bass across much of its range, with
a beautifully supportive piano accompaniment. A more dramatic middle section
contrasts the slower opening and closing music, ending slowly and with a
gentle finality in the lower range of the double bass.
