Beethoven - The Conquering Hero: Complete Works for Cello & Piano
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2450
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 21st January 2022
Contents
Works
Cello Sonata no.1 in F major, op.5 no.1Cello Sonata no.2 in G minor, op.5 no.2
Cello Sonata no.3 in A major, op.69
Cello Sonata no.4 in C major, op.102 no.1
Cello Sonata no.5 in D major, op.102 no.2
Horn Sonata in F major, op.17 (trans. Beethoven for cello and piano)
Variations (7) on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' for cello and piano, WoO46
Variations (12) on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, op.66
Variations (12) on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO45
Artists
Jennifer Kloetzel (cello)Robert Koenig (piano)
Works
Cello Sonata no.1 in F major, op.5 no.1Cello Sonata no.2 in G minor, op.5 no.2
Cello Sonata no.3 in A major, op.69
Cello Sonata no.4 in C major, op.102 no.1
Cello Sonata no.5 in D major, op.102 no.2
Horn Sonata in F major, op.17 (trans. Beethoven for cello and piano)
Variations (7) on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' for cello and piano, WoO46
Variations (12) on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, op.66
Variations (12) on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO45
Artists
Jennifer Kloetzel (cello)Robert Koenig (piano)
About
Jennifer Kloetzel's lifelong journey with the music of Beethoven reaches a career milestone with a tour de force recording of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano.
Jennifer Kloetzel's lifelong journey with Beethoven began early: she was eight years old when her teacher placed the composer's second cello sonata on her music stand, opening the door to an odyssey of intrigue and, ultimately, obsession with the composer's music. Since then, rarely has a day passed without Beethoven being a part of Jennifer's life. She has studied and performed all of the composer's duos and trios. As founding cellist of the Cypress String Quartet, she spent 20 years rehearsing, performing, and recording the string quartets.
Jennifer now arrives at a career milestone with this recording of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano. Views vary as to what comprises Beethoven's "complete" works for cello and piano. Jennifer's discerning choice includes the five Sonatas for Cello and Piano, three sets of variations – based on arias from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus – and the Horn Sonata for which the composer also wrote a cello part.
Jennifer spares no attention to detail across the entire spectrum of this significant recording project. Her performing partner Robert Koenig plays on a 19th-century Blüthner concert grand piano. The illuminating liner notes are penned by Beethoven scholar William Meredith who boldly states, "if there were only the five cello sonatas of Beethoven left of all his music, these alone would have cemented his place in history." The recording was made in the stellar acoustic of Skywalker Sound. The 3-CD set is lavishly packaged in a deluxe digipack. The title track, "The Conquering Hero" – from the opening set of variations from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus – evokes everything for Jennifer about Beethoven's music, coming from a place of triumph and joy.
A graduate of The Juilliard School and a Fulbright Scholar, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel has concertized throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. A founding member of the San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet, Kloetzel has performed at such renowned venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Chautauqua Institute and the Ravinia Festival, the Lobkowicz Palaces in both Vienna and Prague, as well as prominent colleges and conservatories worldwide.
Grammy-nominated pianist Robert Koenig's career as a collaborative artist and chamber musician has taken him to many of the world's most important stages. His recordings include a Grammy-nominated CD of William Primrose's transcriptions for viola and piano with violist Roberto Díaz, as well as recordings for Decca, Cedille, Eroica, Ambassador, Centaur, and CRI.
"Mention must, however, be made of the cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, whose line is unfailingly rich and beautiful." – MusicWeb International (Beethoven: Late String Quartets / Cypress Quartet – AV2356)
Reviews
If only more cellists played like this – and at this level of ceaseless musicianship. We live in an age when many of Jennifer Kloetzel’s soloist colleagues evidently feel the need to perform concertos and chamber music alike with relentless and turbocharged weight of tone, but as always, there are different ways of doing things. This release makes that memorably clear. Malcolm Hayes (Recording of the Month)BBC Music Magazine March 2022
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