Beethoven's Unfinished Piano Concerto no. 6 in D major (Unv 6/Hess15): the ultimate completion
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2021
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Beethoven wrote 256 bars of the Sixth Piano Concerto, spread over 30 pages. The handwritten version of this is kept in the Berlin State Library. In addition, there are 114 pages of separate sketches preserved in various other libraries. For more than 5 years Cees Nieuwenhuizen studied detailed digital copies of all these scores and sketches to get a complete picture of the material. The sketches and the scores are interesting and extensive.
The score, as Beethoven left it to us, is not a musical reduction but rather a rough ‘concept’. Beethoven made such concepts at a very early stage, capturing the most important information about the entire part: key, modulation, form, dramatic twists, solo parts etc. Such a rough concept cannot be turned into a playing version without a proper degree of additional input, it needs some ‘additional’ composing. Therefore, we prefer not to speak about a ‘reconstruction’, but rather about a ‘playable work based on material from Beethoven’. All of Beethoven’s material is used unaltered, the rest is completion. That distinction is important, because similar compositions are easily presented as an ‘unknown Beethoven’, which does not do justice to Beethoven. We will never know what Beethoven exactly had in mind with this concert, but Cees Nieuwenhuizen sure managed to create an exciting piece of music!
golden underrated content.
Thanks, we agree (:
Fascinating glimpse into Beethoven's thinking and processing! Thanks for a chance to hear this marvelous "work."
Great performance! Finally a great reconstruction done with the Great Maestro in mind and following in his passion and verve of composing majestic sounding music for generations to come. I can't have enough of Beethoven's genius. I am thrilled at the idea that someone could actually find the right key to the maestro's heart.
Much different than the shabby execution of the fragmentary 10th Symphony that sounds as if an inexperienced schoolboy amused himself to attempt to emulate the genius that was Beethoven, instead of closely following Beethoven's fury and strength in music. If Beethoven has to be performed, it has to have passion and risk taking to be involved in it.
And here one can clearly listen and taste such an unbridled and unconditional passion that Ludwig van Beethoven had in his heart and in his inner mind.
Bravo to all the performers of this wonderful "coda" of the grand master of music, and thank you for having done so! Ludwig would be proud...
Thank you for these lovely words, we are really proud of this reconsruction. Also we are happy to announce it will have it's world premiere this year. Due to Covid it was cancelled a few times, but it looks like it will happen in August this year, in Amerika.
@@Upstream-music Wonderful news! I am so glad it will happen. I believe it should be with Krystian Zimerman or not at all.
@@Upstream-music Somebody should attempt to take the thematic material and process it into a slow movement and a rondo to finish it off.
Wow, finally a version that sounds like a real concerto!! It seems to me that Nieuwenhuizen used both Beethoven's 4th, 5th and violin concertos structural ideas in order to (re)construct this one, I felt some of the 4th concerto ideas specially at the cadenza, well, I don't know very well neither music nor composition, I just like to listen to the great masters' music, but I felt even some of Tchaikovsky's ideas specially at the very end, I must to confess that I didn't like too much the conclusion (the very last notes), I expected more, it sounded somewhat weak to me, but it is infinitely better than the Cook's reconstruction "forced" last notes, I think Beethoven would make more "ostentatious" last notes (combined with piano), these last notes sounded to me like the WoO 4 concerto's last notes. While Cook's reconstruction is throughout forced and lacks "strenght", "will", specially at the tempo, (some of the performances of that version just "stretch" it from a 13 minutes piece to a 18 minutes one by slowing it down, it becomes boring and even disgusting to listen to), Nieuwenhuizen version, however, is beautiful, very strong, deep, finely composed and tuned, at least to me, it does justice to Beethoven and matches his ideal, so this version is very welcome and refreshing! Thank you very much, Cees Nieuwenhuizen, may God bless you as He already blessed your musical skills! 💖💖💖
Awesome
Bravo!
This version is better than Nicholas Cook's from the '80's. It is a complete sonata form, which the other is not.
You are right, it is more of a compositional reconstruction than purely musicological. Cees Nieuwenhuizen is also primarily a composer and has also had to add elements in various places to be able to call it a complete and playable reconstruction.
That's to musically monster performers,of elevated romantic spirit,my brothers.😮😮
I have listened to the first 5 minutes and I cannot remember anything from it.
What do you mean?
Is this done by AI?
Who wrote the cadence?
Cees Nieuwenhuizen did.
@@Upstream-musicWith the help of Karadeku ApayZana.
since at it, throw some 9th symphony bars😅
Cadens is composed by Cees Nieuwenhuizen
Chi suona ?
Ci sarebbe veramente. interessante saperlo.
È musica "elettronica" ?
E soprattutto - chi ha scritto questa robaccia? Beethoven si rigirerebbe nella tomba.
@@helmutlocatelli4070 perchè? la prima parte del brano è scritto dallo stesso beethoven. solamente l'ultima, piccola parte è stata completata dal musicologo, pianista e compositore olandese Cees Nieuwenhuizen, divenuto tra l'altro famoso proprio per le sue trascrizioni delle opere di beethoven.
Doesn't sound a bit like Beethoven. No wonder he never completed it. Just scraps of thematic material.
It reminds me of that spurious completion of the 10th symphony-- Beethoven's sketched ideas connected by other material 'shoehorned' into it. The description of this effort I think is accurate: Beethoven sketches with ideas drawn from other concertos to fill it in. I actually found the cadenza to be the most convincing part, but those are by definition improvisations of the performer.
Agree. More Mozart than Beethoven.
R/Woosh
This music is nice, but Defiantly not Beethoven, NO one will be able to create what Beethoven was looking for. If it was not identified with Beethoven I would never know that this is supposed to be Beethoven's.
this is no beethoven.