Beethoven: Diabelli variations

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Christina Bjørkøe
The Danish concert pianist Christina Bjørkøe was born in Copenhagen. At the age of 19 she was accepted by the Juilliard School of Music in New York where she studied with Seymour Lipkin, as later with Anne Øland at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. She received her first musical training from
Therese Koppel. She has appeared as a soloist, with orchestral engagements and as chamber musician at venues in Denmark, including the Tivoli Concert Hall’s major Beethoven, Chopin and Schubert series, as well as in Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, France and South America, Asia and the USA.
Christina Bjørkøe has performed with most Danish symphony orchestras, with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra of Sweden, the Iceland Philharmonic Orchestra, Recife Festival Orchestra in Brazil, The Czechish Chamber Orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR.
Christina Bjørkøe’s recording of Knudåge Riisager’s piano music received the Danish Music Award 2005 and 2009 her recording of Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Works received the Danish Music Award as Solo Recording of the Year. She twice won First Prize in the Steinway Competition and has been awarded several other prizes and grants including the prestigous Victor Borge Award.
Christina Bjørkøe is an associate professor at the Southern Denmark Academy of Music and Theatre School.

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SKU: DACOCD 747 Categories: Beethoven𐄀 Ludwig van (1770-1827), Bjørkøe - Christina Piano, Piano

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Ludwig van Beethoven
33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120

Theme. Vivace
2. Var. 1 Alla Marcia maestoso
3. Var. 2 Poco allegro
4. Var. 3 L´istesso tempo
5. Var. 4 Un poco più vivace
6. Var. 5 Allegro vivace
7. Var. 6 Allegro ma non troppo e serioso
8. Var. 7 Un poco più allegro
9. Var. 8 Poco vivace
10. Var. 9 Allegro pesante e risoluto
11. Var. 10 Presto
12. Var. 11 Allegretto
13. Var. 12 Un poco più moto
14. Var. 13 Vivace
15. Var. 14 Grave e maestoso
16. Var. 15 Presto scherzando
17. Var. 16 Allegro
18. Var. 17 …
19. Var. 18 Poco moderato
20. Var. 19 Presto
21. Var. 20 Andante
22. Var. 21 Allegro con brio – Meno allegro
23. Var. 22 Allegro molto (alla “Notte e giorno faticar” di Mozart)
24. Var. 23 Allegro assai
25. Var. 24 Fughetta. Andante
26. Var. 25 Allegro
27. Var. 26 …
28. Var. 27 Vivace
29. Var. 28 Allegro
30. Var. 29 Adagio ma non troppo
31. Var. 30 Andante, sempre cantabile
32. Var. 31 Largo, molto espressivo
33. Var. 32 Fuga. Allegro – Poco adagio
34. Var. 33 Tempo di Menuetto, moderato (ma non tirarsi dietro)

33 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Diabelli ©
The occasion for 33 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Diabelli was a request from the composer – and in this context, not least – the publisher Anton Diabelli. In early 1819 he had the idea to ask Austria’s leading composers (including Schubert, Czerny and Hummel) to write a single variation over a
waltz theme written by Diabelli himself. Legend has it that Beethoven refused writing such as Schusterfleck (both in the sense of cobbler’s patch and in reference to the sequencing of the theme), but since Diabelli was both an acquaintance and was willing to pay – not only for a single variation but for a complete variation sequence – the work slowly grew. With other commissions pressing for completion, the work did not appear in one progressive process. To say that variations were created pell-mell may be an exaggeration, but a number of the movements were inserted later – perhaps in order to mark the mentioned grand formal thinking in the direction of a work both full of contrasts and cohesiveness. The result is unmistakable. It is a magnificent crowning of Beethoven’s jewels of great and substantial piano works.

RELEASE DATE: MAY 2014

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 747

EAN: 5709499747001

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