Compagnia di Punto - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Arrangements by Ries & Ebers) (2020)
Compagnia di Punto - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Arrangements by Ries & Ebers) (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 435 Mb | Total time: 53:31+44:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 19439706502 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 435 Mb | Total time: 53:31+44:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 19439706502 | Recorded: 2019
The Cologne-based historical-performance group Compagnia di Punto has mostly specialized in Baroque and Classical-period music, but here, perhaps due to the fact that the ill-fated year of 2020 marks Beethoven's 250th birthday, they offer arrangements of Beethoven's first three symphonies for a small orchestra. The group includes 13 players: four violinists, one each of viola, cello, and bass, two flutes, bassoon, and three horns. By now, most listeners realize that 19th century listeners, unable to just download the latest Beethoven symphony, relied on arrangements of this kind to hear new music, but the idea needs repetition and new recordings like this one. The virtue of Compagnia di Punto's approach is that listeners get to hear several different ways of reducing Beethoven to minimal dimensions. The arrangements of the Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, and Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ("Eroica"), are by Beethoven, Ferdinand Ries; Beethoven approved of these, perhaps for financial reasons, but he at least looked them over before they were shipped out. These two works have different flavors: the Symphony No. 3 stresses the expanded wind-and-brass component and does an elegant job of highlighting it, while the Symphony No. 2 arrangement is string-heavy. The Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, was arranged by Carl Friedrich Ebers, an exact contemporary of Beethoven, and it in many ways is the most successful of the three, with a striking amount of detail transferred to the new medium. This is partly because Compagnia di Punto restores Beethoven's numerous dynamic and phrasing markings to Ebers' score, but even beyond that, the arrangement makes an attractive effort to capture as much of the original as possible. The group also tweaks the Ries arrangements, eliminating some awkward balances, and it's not impossible to imagine 19th century players making such alterations. The bottom line is that this recording is not only a useful historical document but fun to listen to.–James Manheim
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CD1:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) / Carl Friedrich Ebers (1770-1836)
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
01. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
02. Andante cantabile con moto
03. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace)
04. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
Ludwig van Beethoven / Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838)
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
05. Adagio - Allegro con brio
06. Larghetto
07. Scherzo. Allegro
08. Allegro molto
CD2:
Ludwig van Beethoven / Carl Friedrich Ebers
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55
01. Allegro con brio
02. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
03. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
04. Finale: Allegro molto - Poco andante - Presto
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Compagnia di Punto - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Arrangements by Ries & Ebers) (2020)
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