Beethoven: Complete Variations For Piano, Vol. 2

Sweelinck - Bach - Cage - Feldman - Crumb

After a formidable first volume, Cedric Tiberghien continues his exploration of Beethoven's corpus of variations. At the heart of this new album are the famous Thirty-two Variations in C minor and their tangy reminiscences of Bach - the Ciaccona from Partita No.2 for violin solo, presented here in Brahms's masterly transcription. He also takes the opportunity to show us what a certain school of American composers (Crumb, Cage, Feldman) has made of this tradition of variation form.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) , Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) , John Cage (1912-1992) , Morton Feldman (1926-1987) , George Crumb (1929-2022)

• Bach, J S: Aria Variata in A minor, BWV989 ‘alla Maniera Italiana'
• Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne
• Beethoven: Variations (12) on the 'Menuet à la Vigano' by Haibel, WoO 68
• Beethoven: Variations (24) on Righini's Arietta 'Venni amore,' WoO 65
• Beethoven: Variations (32) on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
• Beethoven: Variations (5) on 'Rule Britannia', WoO 79
• Beethoven: Variations (6) on an original theme in G major for Piano, WoO 77
• Beethoven: Variations (7) on 'God save the King', WoO 78
• Beethoven: Variations (9) on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
• Cage: In a Landscape
• Cage: Seven Haiku
• Crumb, G: Processional
• Feldman, M: Last Pieces (1959)
• Sweelinck: Mein junges Leben hat ein End - variations