Artist: Aris Alexander Blettenberg
Album: Hommage à Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 52:15
Total Tracks: 7
Total Size: 897 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Symphony No. 7 in A Major, S. 464/7 (After Beethoven, Op. 92): II. Allegretto (09:19)
1-02. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Schumann: Etudes in Variation Form on a Theme by Beethoven, WoO 31 (15:39)
1-03. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101: I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung. Allegretto ma non troppo (04:09)
1-04. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101: II. Lebhaft, marschmäßig. Vivace alla marcia (06:11)
1-05. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101: III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll. Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto (02:39)
1-06. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101: IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit. Allegro (07:23)
1-07. Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Beethoven: An die Hoffnung, Op. 94 (Arr. Blettenberg for Piano) (06:53)

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Hommage à Beethoven or per aspera ad astra – a musical journey from darkness into light.

The program is framed by two Beethoven transcriptions:

At the beginning is the Allegretto of the VII Symphony in Franz Liszt’s arrangement, and at the end a piano version of the song An die Hoffnung, written for this CD. In both pieces, sound worlds emerge that set the keynote of this musical journey. The Allegretto functions as a prologue, looks ahead, sets the direction; the song becomes an epilogue, looks back, sums up. The somber atmosphere that runs throughout the program – in the minor passages of the Allegretto, in Schumann’s variations, in the third movement of the Beethoven Sonata, in the recitative-like episodes of the Lied – finds its complement in the light-filled moments, the A major sections of the Allegretto, the first, second, and fourth movements of the Sonata, and ultimately in the confident sounds of the Lied transcription, with its concluding exclamation, “O hope!” (Aris Alexander Blettenberg)