Maxim Rysanov Plays Beethoven
Label: Onyx Classics Catalog: ONYX4108 Format: CD Maxim Rysanov viola; Kristine Blaumane, cello; Jacob Katsnelson, pianoBeethoven: Sonatine WoO 33/4 & 5 for viola and cello / Duo for viola and cello WoO 32 ‘mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern’ / Piano Trio op.11, arr. for piano, viola and cello by Maxim Rysanov / Theme and variations from Serenade op.8, arr. for viola and piano by W. Primrose / Cello Sonata no.5 op.102 no.2 Maxim Rysanov and friends turn their attention to Beethoven after two highly praised Brahms Viola CDs, ONYX 4033 and 4054. Here we have some rare early Beethoven coupled with some late great Beethoven. The Sonatine WoO 33 was published together with three movements for mechanical clock that Beethoven composed in the early 1790s. The Sonatine is thought to date from 1797. The Trio op.11 was composed for piano, clarinet and cello, and here it is heard in Rysanov’s own arrangement with the viola replacing the clarinet. Beethoven’s early Serenade for string trio op.8 of 1797 was arranged (with the composer’s lukewarm approval – he wrote that they ‘were much improved by me in places’) for viola and piano in 1804 as op.42. The version used here of the Theme, Variations and March is by William Primrose. Finally, from the composer’s later period, we have the last of his five cello sonatas played by Kristine Blaumane and pianist Jacob Katsnelson Price: $21.98 |