Diabelli Variations

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Demus's 1971 account of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations is solid if rather didactic. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 20th Aug 2012
Catalogue No: ELQ4803303
Label: Eloquence
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Diabelli: Walzer (Thema)

Work length0:56

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Ignatz Assmayer: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 1

Work length2:32

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Carl Maria Bocklet: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 2

Work length1:14

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Leopold E. Czapek: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 3

Work length0:52

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Czerny: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 4

Work length1:06

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Joseph Czerny: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 5

Work length1:28

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Joseph Drechsler: Variation On A Thema By Diabelli: Variation 7

Work length2:51

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Jacob Freystädtler: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 9

Work length2:33

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Gänsbacher: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 10

Work length1:07

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Abbé Josef Gelinek: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 11

Work length1:00

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Anton Halm: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 12

Work length1:49

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Joachim Hoffmann: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 13

Work length1:16

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Johann Horzalka: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 14

Work length2:24

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Joseph Huglmann: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 15

Work length1:01

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Hummel, J: Var. 16 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz

Work length1:37

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Kalkbrenner: Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz

Work length1:02

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Kerzkowsky: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 20

Work length2:26

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Kreutzer, K: Var. 21 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz

Work length1:08

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Eduard Freiherr von Lannoy: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 22

Work length1:12

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 23

Work length1:19

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Liszt: Var. 24 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz

Work length1:01

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Moscheles: Var. 26 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz

Work length1:23

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Mozart, F X: Var. 28 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz

Work length1:29

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Gottfried Rieger: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 33a

Work length1:35

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Franz Roser: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 35

Work length0:59

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Schubert: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 38

Work length1:35

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Abbé Maximilian Stadler: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 41

Work length0:59

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Josephe de Szalay: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli. Variation 42

Work length1:15

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Václav Tomášek: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 43

Work length1:48

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Angelus von Winckhler: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 47

Work length1:34

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Johann Nepomuk Wittassek: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 49

Work length1:42

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Voříšek: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Variation 50

Work length1:07

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Czerny: Variation On A Theme By Diabelli: Coda

Work length2:34

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120

Work length50:34

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Jörg Demus (piano)
Recorded: 1971-11-08
Recording Venue: Palais Schönburg, Vienna

Tema (Vivace)

Track length0:57

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Variation I (Alla marcia maestoso)

Track length2:17

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Variation II (Poco allegro)

Track length0:45

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Variation III (L'istesso tempo)

Track length1:28

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Variation IV (Un poco più vivace)

Track length1:08

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Variation V (Allegro vivace)

Track length0:56

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Variation VI (Allegro ma non troppo e serioso)

Track length1:39

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Variation VII (Un poco più allegro)

Track length1:08

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Variation VIII (Poco vivace)

Track length1:16

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Variation IX (Allegro pesante e risoluto)

Track length1:14

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Variation X (Presto)

Track length0:34

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Variation XI (Allegretto)

Track length0:57

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Variation XII (Un poco più moto)

Track length0:54

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Variation XIII (Vivace)

Track length1:03

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Variation XIV (Grave e maestoso)

Track length3:18

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Variation XV (Presto scherzando)

Track length0:33

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Variation XVI (Allegro)

Track length0:51

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Variation XVII

Track length0:55

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Variation XVIII (Poco moderato)

Track length1:32

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Variation XIX (Presto)

Track length0:56

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Variation XX (Andante)

Track length2:07

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Variation XXI (Allegro con brio - Meno allegro - Tempo I)

Track length1:16

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Variation XXII (Allegro molto): Alla "Notte e giorno faticar" di Mozart

Track length0:42

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Variation XXIII (Allegro assai)

Track length0:50

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Variation XXIV: Fughetta (Andante)

Track length3:11

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Variation XXV (Allegro)

Track length0:40

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Variation XXVI

Track length1:09

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Variation XXVII (Vivace)

Track length1:01

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Variation XXVIII (Allegro)

Track length0:55

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Variation XXIX (Adagio ma non troppo)

Track length1:19

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Variation XXX (Andante, sempre cantabile)

Track length1:53

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Variation XXXI (Largo, molto espressivo)

Track length4:26

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Variation XXXII: Fuga (Allegro - Poco adagio)

Track length2:53

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Variation XXXIII (Tempo di minuetto moderato, ma non tirarsi dietro)

Track length3:51

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In 1819 the Viennese publisher Anton Diabelli asked ‘the most excellent composers and virtuosi of Vienna and the Austrian Empire’, to write a variation on a waltz theme he had composed. Beethoven was also asked, and although he at first refused, he did finally deliver a cycle of 33 variations as his own contribution to this strange competition. His set was published separately in 1823. The 50 variations by the other composers appeared a year later, under the collective title of ‘National Society of Artists, Part 2’. From these, Jörg Demus chooses 32, basing his decisions both on the quality of the pieces themselves, and the playing-time of an LP, on which the recording first appeared. Played on various fortepianos of the time, this marks this unique recording’s first release on CD.

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December 2012

Demus's 1971 account of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations is solid if rather didactic.

Diabelli Variations

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