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Rudolf Buchbinder

The Diabelli project

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Rudolf Buchbinder, a great Beethoven specialist, unveils his first album made in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon. For Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, Buchbinder presents his interpretation of the sublime 33 Diabelli Variations by the composer, followed by Diabelli’s Waltz in C Major. For the second part of the album, the pianist invited 12 contemporary composers, including Krzysztof Penderecki, Rodion Shchedrin, Brett Dean, Max Richter, Jörg Widmann, Toshio Hosokawa, Lera Auerbach, Brad Lubman, Philippe Manoury, Johannes Maria Staud and Tan Dun, to write their own variations on Diabelli’s theme. These new commissions from Buchbinder echo the original history of the variations. In 1819, the music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli wrote a Deutscher (or German waltz) of 32 measures and sent it to more than 50 Austrian composers, asking each of them to write a variation on his original theme. The commission caused a sensation, but Beethoven refused to take part, considering the theme banal. He would, however, send his 33 variations 4 years later, a composition that turned out to be the composer’s last completed large-scale piano work. Buchbinder concludes this album with his interpretation of the variations by the other composers who took part in this commission, including Carl Czerny, Franz Schubert, Franz Xaver, Mozart’s son, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Franz Liszt.

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Disc 1

  1. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : tema. vivace
  2. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 1. alla marc
  3. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 2. poco alle
  4. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 3. l'istesso
  5. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 4. un poco
  6. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 5. allegro
  7. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 6. allegro
  8. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 7. un poco
  9. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 8. poco
  10. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 9. allegro
  11. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 10. presto
  12. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 11. allegret
  13. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 12. un poco
  14. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 13. vivace
  15. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 14. grave
  16. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 15. presto
  17. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 16. allegro
  18. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 17. allegro
  19. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 18. poco
  20. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 19. presto
  21. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 20. andante
  22. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 21. allegro
  23. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 22. allegro
  24. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 23. allegro
  25. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 24. fughetta
  26. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 25. allegro
  27. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 26. piacevol
  28. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 27. vivace
  29. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 28. allegro
  30. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 29. adagio
  31. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 30. andante
  32. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 31. largo
  33. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 32. fuga
  34. 33 variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli in C major, opus 120 : var. 33.

Disc 2

  1. Anton Diabelli : waltz in C major
  2. Lera Auerbach : Diabellical waltz
  3. Brett Dean : variation for rudi
  4. Toshio Hosokawa : verlust
  5. Christian Jost : rock it Rudi
  6. Brad Lubman : variation for R.B.
  7. Philippe Manoury : zwei jahrhunderte später
  8. Max Richter : Diabelli
  9. Rodion Shchedrin : variation on a theme of Diabelli
  10. Johannes Maria Staud : à propos de Diabelli
  11. Tan Dun : blue orchid
  12. Jörg Widmann : Diabelli-variation
  13. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Johann Nepumuk Hummel
  14. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Friedrich Kalkbrenner
  15. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Conradin Kreutzer
  16. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Franz Liszt
  17. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Ignaz Moscheles
  18. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Franz Xaver Mozart
  19. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Franz Schubert
  20. Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli : Carl Czerny

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