Fur Elise: Bagatelles for Piano by L. V. Beethoven
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.
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1.
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Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33
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2.
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Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 'Für Elise'
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3.
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Bagatelle in C major, WoO 54
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4.
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Allegretto in C major, WoO 56
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5.
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Presto in C minor, WoO 52
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6.
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Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119
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7.
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Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
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8.
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Bagatelle in B-flat major, WoO 60
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9.
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Allegretto in B minor, WoO 61
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10.
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Allegretto quasi andante in G minor, WoO 61a
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11.
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Waltz in D major, WoO 85
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12.
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Ecossaise in E-flat major, WoO 86
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13.
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From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in A major
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14.
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From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in C-sharp
minor
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15.
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From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in E-flat
major
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16.
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From the Kullak sketchbook: Piano Piece in F minor
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