Rudolf Buchbinder - The Diabelli Project (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Celebrated pianist and renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolf Buchbinder will release his first album on Deutsche Grammophon. The collaboration sees him record not only his own new interpretation of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations but to commission 12 new variations himself, echoing the original story where in 1819 music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli wrote a 32-bar German Dance – a forerunner of the waltz – and sent it to more than 50 Austrian composers, asking each of them to write a variation on his original theme.

Buchbinder has invited 12 contemporary composers to write a variation on Diabelli’s theme including (in order of appearance) Lera Auerbach (*1973), Brett Dean (*1961), Toshio Hosokawa (*1955), Christian Jost (*1963), Brad Lubman (*1962), Philippe Manoury (*1952), Krzysztof Penderecki (*1933), Max Richter (*1966), Rodion Shchedrin (*1932), Johannes Maria Staud (*1974), Tan Dun (*1957) and Jörg Widmann (*1973).

At the time, Diabelli received contributions from Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), Frédéric Kalkbrenner (1785-1849), Conradin Kreutzer (1780-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), who was barely eight years old when the invitation was issued, Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791-1844), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Carl Czerny (1791-1857). Buchbinder has included these 8 variations that the original composer Diabelli received back on the album as well.

Beethoven initially refused to write anything, and supposedly dismissed the theme for its banality – but four years later he sent the publisher his own Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. The set, later hailed by conductor Hans von Bülow as a “microcosm of Beethoven’s genius”, turned out to be the composer’s last completed large-scale piano work.

Tracklist:
1. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Tema (Vivace) (0:47)
2. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 1 (Alla marcia maestoso) (1:15)
3. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 2 (Poco allegro) (0:45)
4. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 3 (L’istesso tempo) (1:30)
5. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 4 (Un poco più vivace) (1:11)
6. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 5 (Allegro vivace) (0:52)
7. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 6 (Allegro ma non troppo e serioso) (1:29)
8. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 7 (Un poco più allegro) (1:01)
9. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 8 (Poco vivace) (1:18)
10. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 9 (Allegro pesante e risoluto) (1:39)
11. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 10 (Presto) (0:36)
12. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 11 (Allegretto) (1:06)
13. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 12 (Un poco più moto) (0:55)
14. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 13 (Vivace) (0:56)
15. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 14 (Grave e maestoso) (3:10)
16. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 15 (Presto scherzando) (0:33)
17. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 16 (Allegro) (0:57)
18. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 17 (Allegro) (1:01)
19. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 18 (Poco moderato) (1:47)
20. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 19 (Presto) (0:57)
21. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 20 (Andante) (1:53)
22. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 21 (Allegro con brio. Meno allegro) (0:57)
23. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 22 (Allegro molto, alla ‘Notte e giorno faticar’ di Mozart) (0:38)
24. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 23 (Allegro assai) (0:49)
25. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 24 (Fughetta. Andante) (2:06)
26. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 25 (Allegro) (0:41)
27. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 26 (Piacevole) (1:14)
28. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 27 (Vivace) (0:55)
29. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 28 (Allegro) (0:58)
30. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 29 (Adagio ma non troppo) (1:10)
31. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 30 (Andante, sempre cantabile) (1:51)
32. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 31 (Largo, molto espressivo) (3:54)
33. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 32 (Fugue. Allegro) (2:56)
34. 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli : Var. 33 (Tempo di Minuet moderato) (4:02)
35. 레라 아우에르바흐(Lera Auerbach): : Diabellical Waltz (5:19)
36. 브레트 딘 (Brett Dean): : Variation for Rudi (3:28)
37. 도시오 호소카와 (Toshio Hosokawa): : Verlust (5:02)
38. 크리스티안 요스트 (Christian Jost): : Rock it Rudi (2:06)
39. 브래드 러브먼 (Brad Lubman): : Variation for R.B. (2:41)
40. 필립 마누리 (Philippe Manoury): : Zwei Jahrhunderte später (1:12)
41. 막스 리히터 (Max Richter): : Diabelli (2:45)
42. 로디온 셰드린 (Rodion Shchedrin): : Variation on a Theme of Diabelli (2:06)
43. 요하네스 마리아 스타우드(Johannes Maria Staud): : A propos de…Diabelli (2:20)
44. 탄 둔 (Tan Dun): : Blue Orchid (4:47)
45. 외르크 비트만 (Jörg Widmann): : Diabelli-Variation (3:36)
46. 훔멜: : Var. 16 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:03)
47. 칼크브레너: : Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:00)
48. 크로이처: : Var. 21 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:02)
49. 리스트: : Var. 24 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:03)
50. 모셀레스: : Var. 26 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:05)
51. 프란츠 모차르트: : Var. 28 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:37)
52. 슈베르트: : Var. 38 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (1:58)
53. 체르니: : Var. 6 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz (2:46)