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Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Beethoven: Period, Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello (2014)

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Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Beethoven: Period, Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello (2014)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Period (2014) 2CDs
Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello
Matt Haimovitz, violoncello; Christopher O'Riley, fortepiano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 522 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 331 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Pentatone | # PTC 5186475 | Time: 02:19:56

This release features the complete sonatas and variations for fortepiano and violoncello, recorded on period instruments. In this collaboration, Matt Haimovitz plays his own Goffriller cello, crafted in Venice, Italy in 1710 – outfitted with ox-gut strings also from Italy and an early 19th century rosewood tailpiece and drawn by a Dominique Peccatte bow of the same era, while Christopher O’Riley plays on an original Broadwood fortepiano made in 1823.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O'Riley released their first album together in 2011, an eclectic program of clever crossover arrangements titled Shuffle.Play.Listen. Haimovitz is well-known for bringing a contemporary attitude to his performances, often performing in clubs instead of classical venues, and his interest in making exciting music with a popular feeling has won him a big following. For this 2014 hybrid SACD release on PentaTone, though, Haimovitz and O'Riley turn their attention to the pinnacle of classical music for cello and piano, the five cello sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. With his fans sure to follow where he leads, Haimovitz doesn't need to add anything to this music to spice it up, and he and O'Riley approach the sonatas and three sets of variations with seriousness and dedication, if not exactly reverence. While the sonatas are played as straight as the title suggests, Haimovitz and O'Riley play with considerable emotion and élan, yet avoid making their performances seem like an academic recital. There is a lot of personality here, chiefly Haimovitz's, and even though the music was performed on period instruments, the cello's sound is robust, and the fortepiano is far from fragile. Still, this set might represent too much freedom for period-style purists, so these energetic performances might not be for everybody and sampling is advised. [N.B. In the album's listing, tracks 4 and 8 are reversed.]

Review by Blair Sanderson, Allmusic.com

Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Beethoven: Period, Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello (2014)

Cellist Matt Haimovitz prefaces his period-instrument Beethoven cycle with an absorbing essay, writing that ‘the consideration is no longer the modern-day “how can the cello cut through the multi-voiced powerhouse of a concert grand piano”, but “how can it make room for the nuances of the 19th-century fortepiano?”’ Good engineering also helps, and Pentatone’s vividly resonant production captures the music’s wide dynamic range with comparable clarity and heft to the two Bylsma editions, and surpasses the slightly dry and close-up Isserlis/Levin cycle.

More significantly, Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O’Riley play the living daylights out of these works. They lap up Beethoven’s combative style like hungry lions anticipating raw steak, relishing the composer’s frequent subito dynamics, unpredictable placement of accents and over-the-bar-line phrase groupings. Rarely has Op 5 No 1’s first-movement introduction come alive with such rhythmic character, while the rollicking yet relaxed repartee of Op 5 No 2’s Rondo underlines the music’s kinship to the Fourth Piano Concerto’s finale. Similar attention to detail adds intensity and colour to the off-beat accents in Op 69’s Scherzo, and the Allegro vivace’s playful demeanor (complete with scrupulously observed staccatos) makes for a brash contrast to the eloquence and nobility one normally encounters. If the duo pile into Op 102 No 1’s Allegro vivace too aggressively for certain pitches to register, the joyous, uplifting mood conveyed by their briskly paced Op 102 No 2 final fugue’s transparency and sophisticated phraseology is worth this release’s total price.

Terrific performances of the variation sets prove more than merely filler. If you want a HIP counterpart to the Maisky/Argerich cycle, look no further.

Review by Jed Distler, Gramophone

Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Beethoven: Period, Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello (2014)



Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Beethoven: Period, Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello (2014)

Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Beethoven: Period, Complete Sonatas and Variations for Pianoforte and Violoncello (2014)



Tracklist:

CD1:
Sonata for Pianoforte & Violoncello in F major, Op.5, No.1
01. I. Adagio sostenuto (2:34)
02. I. Allegro (14:11)
03. II. Rondo. Allegro vivace (6:49)

04. 12 Variations on 'See the conquering hero comes' from Handel's 'Judas Maccabaeus (9:57)

Sonata for Pianoforte & Violoncello in G minor, Op.5, No.2
05. I. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo (4:53)
06. I. Allegro molto più tosto presto (13:22)
07. II. Rondo. Allegro (8:41)

08. 12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' from Mozart's 'Die Zauberflöte', Op.66 (11:27)

CD2:

Sonata for Pianoforte & Violoncello in A major, Op.69
01. I. Allegro ma non tanto (12:40)
02. II. Scherzo. Allegro molto (5:19)
03. III. Adagio cantabile - (1:28)
04. III. Allegro vivace (6:49)

05. 7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen' from Mozart's 'Die Zauberflöte (9:07)

Sonata for Pianoforte & Violoncello in C major, Op.102, No.1
06. I. Andante - (2:18)
07. I. Allegro vivace (4:47)
08. II. Adagio - Tempo d’Andante (2:17)
09. II. Allegro vivace (4:22)

Sonata for Pianoforte & Violoncello in D major, Op.102, No.2
10. I. Allegro con brio (6:29)
11. II. Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto (8:17)
12. III. Allegro fugato (4:08)


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