Beethoven & Stockhausen: Piano Pieces

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Release Date: 12th Jan 2015
Catalogue No: HATNOWART193
Label: hat
Series: hat[now]ART
Length: 80 minutes

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Stockhausen: Klavierstück I

Work length2:40

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Stockhausen: Klavierstück II

Work length1:17

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Stockhausen: Klavierstück III

Work length0:37

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Stockhausen: Klavierstück IV

Work length2:46

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101

Work length20:36

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Etwas lebhaft, und mit der innigsten Empfindung

Track length4:05

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Lebhaft. Marschmässig

Track length6:10

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Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll

Track length3:06

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Geschwinde, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit

Track length7:15

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Stockhausen: Klavierstück V

Work length5:10

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Work length27:20

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Pi-Hsien Chen

Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato

Track length9:16

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ARIETTA Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Track length18:04

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Stockhausen: Klavierstück VI

Work length20:33

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Pi-Hsien Chen

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Above all this is music which still sounds as new as it did when it was first created, music conceived boldly without a hint of compromise. Yet, although I have suggested there are similarities to be found in these composers’ approaches to innovation and technology, fundamentally they could not be more different. In Beethoven, even in those moments in the slow music which propose a sort of repose, there is an irresistible forward momentum, a propulsive drive towards the new, the unknown, perhaps even the impossible. By contrast, in Stockhausen’s music, animation and stasis are always balanced; a multitude of possibilities is being played out, but it is a multitude which the composer already holds in his head. It was this difference between Beethoven and Stockhausen, so acutely assessed by Jonathan Harvey, which meant that Kurzwellen mit Beethoven could never have succeeded, but it is this difference which also makes this such an exciting CD. To listen to this music in the sequence recorded here, alternating Stockhausen and Beethoven, then Stockhausen again, is – as with Pi-Hsien Chen’s previous of Cage and Scarlatti : hat(now)ART 188 – to have one’s ideas about music turned on their head time after time, to be confronted with the shock of the new in all its revolutionary diversity. Christopher Fox

Beethoven & Stockhausen: Piano Pieces

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