Consisting entirely of music for horn and piano, this little disc can't hope to sketch out the heritage of Beethoven. But it does more than you might think, for Beethoven's early chamber pieces, now among his least well known, were among the most enthusiastically played in his oeuvre during his lifetime. One of these was the Sonata in F major for horn and piano, Op. 17, composed for a local virtuoso named Giovanni Punto (or Jan [Vaclav] Stich, which means Giovanni Punto) in 1800 and, according to Ferdinand Ries, encored in ...
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Consisting entirely of music for horn and piano, this little disc can't hope to sketch out the heritage of Beethoven. But it does more than you might think, for Beethoven's early chamber pieces, now among his least well known, were among the most enthusiastically played in his oeuvre during his lifetime. One of these was the Sonata in F major for horn and piano, Op. 17, composed for a local virtuoso named Giovanni Punto (or Jan [Vaclav] Stich, which means Giovanni Punto) in 1800 and, according to Ferdinand Ries, encored in full when it was performed with Beethoven himself at the piano. This and most or all of the other pieces on the album were composed for a natural horn but are ably performed here on a modern instrument by Quebecois hornist Louis-Philippe Marsolais, with pianist David Jalbert. Within its limited confines, the program gives an unusually detailed feel for the shape of Beethoven's shadow. The fun is primarily in the other three pieces on the album, which are each successful and...
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