Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words & Music: Ludwig van Beethoven (2022)

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Title: Great Composers in Words & Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 67:51 min
Total Size: 219 MB
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Leighton Pugh - Great Composers in Words & Music: Ludwig van Beethoven (2022)

Tracklist:

1. Introduction
2. I. Allegro (Excerpt)
3. Wild, Untamed, Arresting, Yearning, Tortured, Passionate
4. Var. 9, Allegro
5. Beethoven, It Should Be Said, Was No Mozart
6. I. March (Excerpt)
7. It Was Probably Waldstein Who, in the Following Months
8. IV. Finale (Excerpt)
9. Notwithstanding His Simmering Resentment Towards Haydn
10. I. Allegro con brio (Excerpt)
11. Eight Months After the Charity Concert
12. I. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo (Excerpt)
13. The Next Few Years Witnessed Multiple Performances
14. I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio (Excerpt)
15. Less Than Two Years Later
16. I. Adagio sostenuto (Excerpt)
17. Unfortunately for Beethoven, the Sorrowful Mood
18. I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio (Excerpt)
19. Beethoven’s Productivity Continued on His Return to Vienna
20. Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin: (1814 Version) [Excerpt]
21. Wrapped Up with the Complicated Genesis
22. IV. Finale (Excerpt)
23. During This Period of Creative Inspiration
24. I. Allegro ma non troppo (Excerpt)
25. Before the Mega-Concert Took Place
26. VI. Chorus. Poco allegro (Excerpt)
27. Searching for Popular Acclaim at Home in Vienna
28. V. Agnus Dei (Excerpt)
29. Beethoven Interrupted Work on the Archduke’s Mass
30. Var. 21, Allegro con brio (Excerpt)
31. Beethoven Now Turned His Attention to a Work
32. IV. Finale (Excerpt) [1]
33. After Completion of the Ninth Symphony
34. IV. Finale (Excerpt) [2]
35. If Beethoven’s Life Was a Hollywood Blockbuster
36. V. Cavatina (Excerpt)

When we think of Ludwig van Beethoven images of a stormy and passionate but tortured genius are brought to mind, alongside the transformative effect of his work on musical history. All of these things are true, but no artist lives in a vacuum, and even music that opens a portal onto ‘the infinite realm of the spirit’ has its wider context. Illustrated with music from each period, this enlightening life history tells us about Beethoven’s place in society from his earlier career as a fine pianist, his life on the edge of the Napoleonic war, his professional triumphs and many romantic misfortunes, and that famous defiance of deafness and declaration that he would ‘seize Fate by the throat’. The musical excerpts include the ‘Pathétique’ and ‘Moonlight’ Sonatas, ‘Diabelli’ Variations, Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 9, ‘Emperor’ Concerto, Missa solemnis and Fidelio, among many others.