Für Elise: Bagatelles for Piano by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Stephanie McCallum
The score for the recently-discovered Piano Piece in F minor, which is probably Beethoven's last piano work, and which has its first recording on this disc, can be purchased from inter-note.
"Pleasant little piano piece may be Beethoven's last work". Sydney Morning Herald, 5 September, 2008
"Scholar finds `Beethoven's last piano work' in library" The Independent. 9 September, 2008
This disc, released in August 2008, contains Beethoven's three published sets of Bagatelles, opus 33, opus 119 and opus 126 as well as nine other short pieces in a similar style, ranging from the WoO 59 in A minor, better known under the title of Für Elise, to the Waltz and Ecossaise, WoO 85 and 86, which Beethoven wrote as a charity gesture for a disabled actor in 1826 and which were the last published piano pieces that he wrote. The set concludes with a dip into Beethoven's last sketchbook, the Kullak sketchbook. Stephanie plays a series of short snippets from this sketchbook, each of interest in its own right, and prepared for performance by Stephanie's husband, the musicologist, Peter McCallum. The last of these, is a simple attractive short piece in F minor and is believed by Peter to be the last piano piece that Beethoven wrote. It is recorded here for the first time and has now been published by inter-note.
1. |
Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 |
2. |
Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 'Für Elise' |
3. |
Bagatelle in C major, WoO 54 |
4. |
Allegretto in C major, WoO 56 |
5. |
Presto in C minor, WoO 52 |
6. |
Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119 |
7. |
Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 |
8. |
Bagatelle in B-flat major, WoO 60 |
9. |
Allegretto in B minor, WoO 61 |
10. |
Allegretto quasi andante in G minor, WoO 61a |
11. |
Waltz in D major, WoO 85 |
12. |
Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 86 |
13. |
From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in A major |
14. |
From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in C-sharp minor |
15. |
From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in E-flat major |
16. |
From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in F minor |