Beethoven Can Do

Posted on September 1st, 2008 and filed in Beethoven, Beethoven Can Do, The Greatest

HE CAN DO:

Soothing Chamber Music

Quintet in E flat major for 3 horns, oboe and bassoon / second movement
http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/various-artists-naxos_beethoven_-chamber-music-for-horns-winds-and-strings_08_quintet_-adagio-maestoso.mp3Right Click to Download

Absurd and Zen-like! (the Diabelli variations are in the “Piano freaks only” section)

In the second half, there is a remarkable pianissimo passage where the treble holds a chord for four full bars while the bass repeats a little three-note figure over and over, eight times, after which the melody proceeds as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

As if nothing out of the ordinary had happened! I love it.

Diabelli variation 3
http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/william-kinderman_01_03_beethoven-diabelli-var-3-listesso-tempo1.mp3Right Click to Download

Can Do: “Spooky”

The Ghost Trio was so named by Czerny because the second movement reminded him of Hamlet’s Ghost in Shakespeare. In fact, Beethoven’s notes reveal that he was working on an idea for an opera based on Macbeth, and interspersed with these notes are the sketch of a slow movement for the Trio.

Piano trio 5 in d major second movement
http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/ludwig-van-beethoven_02_piano-trio-no-5-in-d-major-op-70-1-ghost-trio-ii-largo-assai-ed-espressivo.mp3Right Click to Download

Fun, humorous, “cheeky” ala Mozart

Piano sonata 15 third movement
http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/09-various-iii-scherzo-allegro-vivace.mp3Right Click to Download

Simple/Profound

These two pieces are examples of the “simplest” pieces of music being the most difficult to play properly! He “casts a spell” with the most basic melody, and I think epitomizes claims to his being “The Greatest”

Fur Elise
http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/17-beethoven-bagatelle-no-25-a-minor-fur-elise-woo-59.mp3Right Click to Download

Moonlight Sonata
http://jimsclassicalmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/pianosonate-nr-14-i-ciss-mol-opus-27-1-sats-02-evelyne-dubourg.mp3Right Click to Download

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