Title: Beethoven: Variations
Artist: Angela Hewitt
Label: Hyperion
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 034571283463
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-09-25
Number of Discs: 1

The great “Eroica” variations are the centerpiece of this program, which ends with two amusingly anglophile tributes, and contains some surprisingly under-appreciated Beethoven. This is an indispensable pendant to Angela Hewitt’s ongoing survey of his piano sonatas.

Tracks:
1.1 Beethoven: 32 Variations on An Original Theme in C minor, Woo80
1.2 Beethoven: 6 Variations on An Original Theme in F Major, Op 34
1.3 Beethoven: 15 Variations and a Fugue on An Original Theme ‘Eroica’, Op 35
1.4 Beethoven: 9 Variations on the Aria ‘Quant’ Pi Bello’ from Paisiello’s la Molinara, Woo69
1.5 Beethoven: 6 Variations on the Duet ‘Nel Cor Pi Non Mi Sento’ from la Molinara, Woo70
1.6 Beethoven: 7 Variations on ‘God Save the King’, Woo78
1.7 Beethoven: 5 Variations on ‘Rule, Britannia’, Woo79