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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major, Opus 15 Rondo in B Flat Major, WoO 6 Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in December,...

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major, Opus 15

Rondo in B Flat Major, WoO 6

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in December, 1770, the son of Johann van Beethoven, a singer in the service of the Archbishop of Cologne, and the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven, Kapellmeister to the same patron, who died in 1773, but whose distinction lived on in the family, the possible cause of Johann van Beethoven's professional and parental inadequacy, his son finally forced to assume responsibility for his two younger brothers, a task he was to continue to discharge in a characteristically eccentric manner.

At home Beethoven had received erratic practical training in music, but was able to follow a more consistent course of study from 1781 with the court organist Neefe, whose unpaid deputy he became.

In 1784 he entered the paid service of the Archbishop as deputy court organist and playing the cembalo or the viola in the court orchestra, as occasion demanded. In 1788 he was sent to Vienna, where he hoped to study with Mozart, but was recalled to Bonn by news of his mother's final illness. Four years later he went to Vienna once more, this time to study with Haydn. He remained there for the rest of his life.

Beethoven established himself in Vienna at first as a virtuoso keyboard-player, his virtuosity including improvisation at the keyboard and composition. From Albrechtsberger he took lessons in counterpoint and from the Court Composer Salieri in vocal and dramatic setting, but he claimed to find little help in his lessons from Haydn. Armed with suitable introductions, he was able to make influential friends among the aristocracy and it was with their support that he continued his career in Vienna, even when increasing deafness made performance at first difficult and eventually impossible.

It is a tribute to the discernment of Beethoven's patrons that they perceived his genius, in spite of his uncouthness and increasing eccentricities of character, in the face of which they exercised considerable restraint and generosity. In Vienna he lived through turbulent times, through the years of Napoleonic conquests and into the repressive age of Metternich. He died in March, 1827, his death the occasion for public mourning in Vienna at the passing of a long familiar figure whose like the city was not to see again.

Beethoven wrote his first piano concerto in 1784, at the age of fourteen and had attempted a violin concerto before he finally left Bonn. In Vienna he was to publish five piano concertos, the first, published as No.2, completed in a revised version in 1795 and the fifth, the so-called Emperor Concerto, published in 1811. The first decade of the century also saw the composition of the D major Violin Concerto, the Triple Concerto and the Choral Fantasia.

The Rondo in B Flat Major, WoO 6, was written some time before 1794 and was intended as the final movement of the concerto published as No.2 in 1801, but probably first sketched in Bonn. It was published after the composer's death, in 1829, the solo part completed by Carl Czerny.

The Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major

was completed in 1795 and intended for the composer's own use. A revised version was published in 1801 with a dedication to Barbara von Keglevich, who that year had married Prince Odescalchi and moved to Pressburg (the modern Bratislava). Scored for an orchestra that includes clarinets, trumpets and drums, it opens with a sparkling first movement, leading to an A flat major Largo of particular beauty. Beethoven's pupil Ferdinand Ries regarded the composer's own performance of the finale as freakish, although others have recently attempted to follow the composer's private suggestion that notes should be added to the principal rondo theme to impart brilliance to it.

Stefan Vladar

The Austrian pianist Stefan Vladar was born in 1965 and started piano lessons at the age of six. From 1973 he studied at the Vienna University for Music and Arts with Renate Kramer-Preisenhammer and Hans Petermandl. After winning a number of awards in piano competitions in Austria, including the first prize in the Rudolf Heydner Piano Competition, he took the first prize in the 1985 International Beethoven Competition, the youngest of the 140 competitors.

Stefan Vladar's subsequent career has brought him a busy schedule of engagements, with performances throughout Europe and appearances in China, Thailand, Japan and Korea, as well as in the United States of America.

Capella Istropolitana

The Capella Istropolitana was founded in 1983 by members of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, at first as a chamber orchestra and then as an orchestra large enough to tackle the standard classical repertoire. Based in Bratislava, its name drawn from the ancient name still preserved in the Academia Istropolitana, the historic university established in the Slovak and one-time Hungarian capital by Matthias Corvinus, the orchestra works principally in the recording studio. Recordings by the orchestra on the Naxos label include The Best of Baroque Music, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, fifteen each of Mozart's and Haydn's symphonies as well as works by Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann.

Barry Wordsworth

Barry Wordsworth's career has been dominated by his work for the Royal Ballet which started when he played the solo part in Frank Martin's Harpsichord Concerto, a score used by Sir Kenneth MacMillan for his ballet, Las Hermanas. In 1973 he became Assistant Conductor of the Royal Ballet's Touring Orchestra and in 1974 Principal Conductor of Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet. He made his debut at Covent Garden conducting MacMillan's Manon in 1975 and since then has conducted there frequently. He has toured extensively with the Royal Ballet. conducting orchestras in New Zealand.

Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea. Canada and Australia, where he has been guest conductor for Australian Ballet.

In 1987 while retaining his connection with both Royal Ballet companies as guest conductor, Barry Wordsworth also worked with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the Ulster Orchestra. the BBC Concert and the London Philharmonic Orchestras. He has also continued to work with New Sadlers Wells Opera, with whom he has recorded excerpts from Kalman's Countess Maritza and Lehar's The Count of Luxembourg and The Merry Widow. For the Naxos label Wordsworth recorded a number of Mozart and Haydn symphonies, works by Smetana and Dvorak and for the Marco Polo label works by Bax.

Disc 1

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

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Performed by: Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra Vienna State Opera Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Capella Istropolitana NBC Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Ludwig van Beethoven Arturo Toscanini Olli Mustonen
Conducted by: Malcolm Sargent Philippe Jordan Hans Rosbaud Andrew Davis Antoni Wit Barry Wordsworth Seiji Ozawa Hubert Soudant
Walter Gieseking, piano
Artur Schnabel, piano
Paul Badura-Skoda,
Valery Afanassiev, piano
Anton Kuerti, piano
Ernest Macmillan, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Martha Argerich, piano
Anton Dikov, piano
Stefan Vladar, piano
Glenn Gould, voice
Francois-Frederic Guy, piano

Rondo in B flat major, WoO 6

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Performed by: Capella Istropolitana
Composed by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conducted by: Barry Wordsworth
Stefan Vladar, piano
Recording date: 3-4 October 1988

Rondo in B flat major, WoO 6 - 9:37

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Composer(s):
Beethoven, Ludwig van

Conductor(s):
Wordsworth, Barry

Orchestra(s):
Capella Istropolitana

Artist(s):
Vladar, Stefan

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 730099519021
Item Number: 8550190
Release Date: Dec 15, 1988

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