Beethoven Explored Volume 6

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[This] is a disc which is worth having no matter how many versions you have of the original. — MusicWeb International, April 2015

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2015
Catalogue No: MSVCD2008
Label: Metier
Series: Beethoven Explored
Length: 49 minutes

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'

Work length49:00

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$14.15

Peter Sheppard Skærved, Dov Scheindlin, Neil Heyde, Aaron Shorr

I. Allegro con brio (1807 Version for Piano Quartet)

Track length18:18

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$5.15

II. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai (1807 Version for Piano Quartet)

Track length13:22

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$3.85

III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (1807 Version for Piano Quartet)

Track length6:12

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$1.30

IV. Allegro molto (1807 Version for Piano Quartet)

Track length11:08

$3.00

$3.85

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Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony was written in 1803 and published in 1806; he insisted that versions for piano and for string quintet also be published. However in 1807 when the chamber version appeared, it was a piano quartet. It is not known whether Beethoven prepared this himself but as an anonymous piece it is quite groundbreaking, unique and like nothing written before. In its own right it is a masterful chamber work.

Importantly, this is NOT the arrangement by Ferdinand Ries published 50 years later, though there are some similarities. This early work is to our mind far superior and this is the World Premiere recording.

Skaerved and Shorr have presented the previous 5 volumes in this series to acclaim, and are joined by Kreutzer Quartet cellist Neil Heyde and the American Dov Scheindlin: an ‘extraordinary violist’ (New York Times)

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April 2015

[This] is a disc which is worth having no matter how many versions you have of the original.

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