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Photo: Peter Schaaf Susan Kagan Susan Kagan, a pianist, author, and educator, Ferdinand holds a Ph.D from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation on the music of Archduke RIES Rudolph, Beethoven’s only composition student, was published by Pendragon Press in 1988, under the title Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Patron, Pupil, and Friend. Susan Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 Kagan taught music history at Hunter College, CUNY, where she founded the New York Chapter of the American Beethoven Susan Kagan, Piano Society in 1995. She is also a reviewer of new recordings for Fanfare Magazine. Her discography includes three CDs issued by Koch International, in partnership with the renowned Czech violinist Josef Suk. She has also recorded two sets of Mozart piano concertos with the Suk Chamber Orchestra of Prague on the Vox and Koch Discover labels. Her CD of solo piano music by Beethoven and his pupils, Ferdinand Ries and Archduke Rudolph, was released by Koch International in 2001. In 2002 Susan Kagan was awarded the Antonín Dvorˇák Award by the Masaryk Academy of the Arts in Prague for her contribution to Czech musical culture. In 2007 she received the Ira F. Brilliant Lifetime Achievement Award for Beethoven Performance and Studies from the American Beethoven Society. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the American Beethoven Society, the American Schubert Institute, and the Schubert Society of the United States.

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Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838) finale, a set of variations on a Russian melody, was used rapid triplet figuration. In the development section of the Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 again in Ries’s variations for piano duet (Op. 14). The movement there is a rare example (for Ries) of a fugal theme is folk-like, marked by off-beat accents, with a heavy section, followed by a recapitulation of the main theme and Ferdinand Ries is known mainly through his connection “ideal”. Later he was influenced by new trends in sonatas bass accompaniment. The seven variations that follow are a short coda, in which the motion continues breathlessly with Beethoven, as his family friend, piano student, and of Beethoven, Clementi, Hummel, and others. Ries was a typically a mix of virtuoso and lyrical styles with inventive through the last measure, vanishing quietly into thin air. early biographer. Ries’s connections with Beethoven began master of the prevailing classical forms, sonata form, ABA figuration, capped by a brilliant little coda. The Sonatina in A minor, Op. 45, was probably com- in Bonn and continued in Vienna, and later in London. (song) form, rondo, and variations, and that mastery, as The second Sonata in F minor contrasts markedly with posed while Ries was on tour in Russia in 1811-12. The title Born in 1784, when Beethoven was fourteen, Ferdinand well as striking originality, can be seen in all his the first in emotional impact. The first movement opens page of the first edition, published by Clementi in 1817, was the son of Franz Ries, violinist in the Electoral Court compositions. What is most remarkable, however, is Ries’s with a slow sombre introduction in D flat major, ending clearly declares it “Sonata for the Pianoforte”. Comprising orchestra, who taught Beethoven the violin and befriended anticipation of the style of the great piano composers of with a brief melodic figure that serves as a motif on which two movements only, it is smaller in scope than the other his family during Beethoven’s youth. Largely self-taught, the early Romantic period, of Schubert, Mendelssohn, and the melodic material of the entire movement is built. The sonatas. The first movement, a miniature sonata form, is Ferdinand first studied in Munich, but around 1803 he went Chopin, who were not yet born or still young children when main section of the F minor Allegro is impassioned and tinged with a kind of expressive melancholy, perhaps owing to Vienna to study the piano with Beethoven, who sent him he was at the peak of his piano sonata composition, from intense, its theme rising dramatically in little bursts. A to the descending minor second that dominates the main to the noted theorist-composer Johann Albrechtsberger for about 1805 to 1818. Schubert’s poignant harmonic second theme, in A flat major, is lyrical, as is a closing theme. The second movement is a jaunty, dance-like rondo composition lessons. Ries was probably Beethoven’s language, Mendelssohn’s expressive, sweet melodies, theme; but the character of the movement is one of in A major, with a contrasting central section in D minor. closest friend during this period, carrying out all kinds of Chopin’s brilliant figuration, all of these features figure in impulsive, soaring romantic energy and brilliance. The Small in scope, perhaps, but both movements of this sonata musical and secretarial tasks for him, copying parts, making Ries’s piano writing in his sonatas, well ahead of their full lovely slow movement, in F major, is in complete contrast, illustrate perfectly Ries’s masterful handling of form. transcriptions and arrangements, proof-reading and seeing flowering in the Romantic period after 1830. His last two with lyrical themes and a serene mood. The finale is a to publications. Later, after years of touring as a concert sonatas, composed in 1826 and 1832, reflect the change to whirlwind of motion, a tarantella in moto perpetuo, with Susan Kagan pianist and a short stay in Paris, Ries settled in London and a showy style more appealing to public taste. married an Englishwoman. Even then he continued to act Robert Schumann, reviewing a work by Ries in 1835 in on Beethoven’s behalf. his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, noted his “remarkable Ries was a gifted and prolific composer in every originality”. Like Schubert he had an abundance of lyrical Scores of the following works are available from: instrumental genre, whose works, like those of so many melodic ideas in constant flow. This is borne out in his composers of the time, were largely overshadowed by many sonata-form movements, where the first theme, the Beethoven’s huge presence. Still, in his lifetime his music second, and the closing theme are each distinctive, and www.artaria.com was published and widely known to the music-loving ingeniously developed. Among significant characteristics public. A brilliant pianist, Ries made his début in Vienna of Ries’s style, many of which were to become hallmarks Sources in 1804, playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. He of the language of Romanticism, are dramatic dynamic The sources upon which the editions used in this recording have been made are: toured for many years throughout Europe, including Russia, contrasts, abrupt changes in tempo and mood, harmonic to great acclaim, and was made a member of the Royal shifts, fluent ornate figuration, wide stretches and leaps, Swedish Academy of Music. In his lifetime virtually and radical use of the sustaining pedal to blur harmonies. Sonata in E flat major, Op. 11, No. 1 Sonata in F minor, Op. 11, No. 2 everything he composed was published, and often issued The publication of the two Sonatas, Op. 11, No. 1 in E Edited by Allan Badley & Susan Kagan – Edited by Allan Badley & Susan Kagan – again by different publishers, attesting to his popularity. flat major and No. 2 in F minor, was announced in 1816, Artaria Editions AE484 Artaria Editions AE484 Eventually in 1824 he and his family left England and lived but both had been composed earlier, around the years 1807- Simrock print [1816]: Stockholm, Statens Simrock print [1816]: Stockholm, Statens in Bad Godesburg near his home town in the Rhineland 08, while Ries was living in Paris. Both exhibit many of the Musikbibliotek – The Music Library of Sweden Musikbibliotek – The Music Library of Sweden until finally settling in 1830 in Frankfurt am Main, where Romantic traits above. he conducted and continued to compose until his death. The first movement of the Sonata in E flat, in sonata Sonatina in A minor, Op. 45 Ries began composing his piano sonatas at a time when form and marked Allegro moderato, unfolds serenely. The Edited by Allan Badley & Susan Kagan – the genre was undergoing significant changes. His models lyrical A flat slow movement (Andante) sustains the mood Artaria Editions AE486 Clementi print [1817]: Oxford, Bodleian Library were those of the great classicists, C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, of the first; its opening section is repeated twice, each time Mozart, and early Beethoven, who had perfected the sonata with a florid embellishment of the right-hand theme. The

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Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838) finale, a set of variations on a Russian melody, was used rapid triplet figuration. In the development section of the Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 again in Ries’s variations for piano duet (Op. 14). The movement there is a rare example (for Ries) of a fugal theme is folk-like, marked by off-beat accents, with a heavy section, followed by a recapitulation of the main theme and Ferdinand Ries is known mainly through his connection “ideal”. Later he was influenced by new trends in sonatas bass accompaniment. The seven variations that follow are a short coda, in which the motion continues breathlessly with Beethoven, as his family friend, piano student, and of Beethoven, Clementi, Hummel, and others. Ries was a typically a mix of virtuoso and lyrical styles with inventive through the last measure, vanishing quietly into thin air. early biographer. Ries’s connections with Beethoven began master of the prevailing classical forms, sonata form, ABA figuration, capped by a brilliant little coda. The Sonatina in A minor, Op. 45, was probably com- in Bonn and continued in Vienna, and later in London. (song) form, rondo, and variations, and that mastery, as The second Sonata in F minor contrasts markedly with posed while Ries was on tour in Russia in 1811-12. The title Born in 1784, when Beethoven was fourteen, Ferdinand well as striking originality, can be seen in all his the first in emotional impact. The first movement opens page of the first edition, published by Clementi in 1817, was the son of Franz Ries, violinist in the Electoral Court compositions. What is most remarkable, however, is Ries’s with a slow sombre introduction in D flat major, ending clearly declares it “Sonata for the Pianoforte”. Comprising orchestra, who taught Beethoven the violin and befriended anticipation of the style of the great piano composers of with a brief melodic figure that serves as a motif on which two movements only, it is smaller in scope than the other his family during Beethoven’s youth. Largely self-taught, the early Romantic period, of Schubert, Mendelssohn, and the melodic material of the entire movement is built. The sonatas. The first movement, a miniature sonata form, is Ferdinand first studied in Munich, but around 1803 he went Chopin, who were not yet born or still young children when main section of the F minor Allegro is impassioned and tinged with a kind of expressive melancholy, perhaps owing to Vienna to study the piano with Beethoven, who sent him he was at the peak of his piano sonata composition, from intense, its theme rising dramatically in little bursts. A to the descending minor second that dominates the main to the noted theorist-composer Johann Albrechtsberger for about 1805 to 1818. Schubert’s poignant harmonic second theme, in A flat major, is lyrical, as is a closing theme. The second movement is a jaunty, dance-like rondo composition lessons. Ries was probably Beethoven’s language, Mendelssohn’s expressive, sweet melodies, theme; but the character of the movement is one of in A major, with a contrasting central section in D minor. closest friend during this period, carrying out all kinds of Chopin’s brilliant figuration, all of these features figure in impulsive, soaring romantic energy and brilliance. The Small in scope, perhaps, but both movements of this sonata musical and secretarial tasks for him, copying parts, making Ries’s piano writing in his sonatas, well ahead of their full lovely slow movement, in F major, is in complete contrast, illustrate perfectly Ries’s masterful handling of form. transcriptions and arrangements, proof-reading and seeing flowering in the Romantic period after 1830. His last two with lyrical themes and a serene mood. The finale is a to publications. Later, after years of touring as a concert sonatas, composed in 1826 and 1832, reflect the change to whirlwind of motion, a tarantella in moto perpetuo, with Susan Kagan pianist and a short stay in Paris, Ries settled in London and a showy style more appealing to public taste. married an Englishwoman. Even then he continued to act Robert Schumann, reviewing a work by Ries in 1835 in on Beethoven’s behalf. his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, noted his “remarkable Ries was a gifted and prolific composer in every originality”. Like Schubert he had an abundance of lyrical Scores of the following works are available from: instrumental genre, whose works, like those of so many melodic ideas in constant flow. This is borne out in his composers of the time, were largely overshadowed by many sonata-form movements, where the first theme, the Beethoven’s huge presence. Still, in his lifetime his music second, and the closing theme are each distinctive, and www.artaria.com was published and widely known to the music-loving ingeniously developed. Among significant characteristics public. A brilliant pianist, Ries made his début in Vienna of Ries’s style, many of which were to become hallmarks Sources in 1804, playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. He of the language of Romanticism, are dramatic dynamic The sources upon which the editions used in this recording have been made are: toured for many years throughout Europe, including Russia, contrasts, abrupt changes in tempo and mood, harmonic to great acclaim, and was made a member of the Royal shifts, fluent ornate figuration, wide stretches and leaps, Swedish Academy of Music. In his lifetime virtually and radical use of the sustaining pedal to blur harmonies. Sonata in E flat major, Op. 11, No. 1 Sonata in F minor, Op. 11, No. 2 everything he composed was published, and often issued The publication of the two Sonatas, Op. 11, No. 1 in E Edited by Allan Badley & Susan Kagan – Edited by Allan Badley & Susan Kagan – again by different publishers, attesting to his popularity. flat major and No. 2 in F minor, was announced in 1816, Artaria Editions AE484 Artaria Editions AE484 Eventually in 1824 he and his family left England and lived but both had been composed earlier, around the years 1807- Simrock print [1816]: Stockholm, Statens Simrock print [1816]: Stockholm, Statens in Bad Godesburg near his home town in the Rhineland 08, while Ries was living in Paris. Both exhibit many of the Musikbibliotek – The Music Library of Sweden Musikbibliotek – The Music Library of Sweden until finally settling in 1830 in Frankfurt am Main, where Romantic traits above. he conducted and continued to compose until his death. The first movement of the Sonata in E flat, in sonata Sonatina in A minor, Op. 45 Ries began composing his piano sonatas at a time when form and marked Allegro moderato, unfolds serenely. The Edited by Allan Badley & Susan Kagan – the genre was undergoing significant changes. His models lyrical A flat slow movement (Andante) sustains the mood Artaria Editions AE486 Clementi print [1817]: Oxford, Bodleian Library were those of the great classicists, C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, of the first; its opening section is repeated twice, each time Mozart, and early Beethoven, who had perfected the sonata with a florid embellishment of the right-hand theme. The

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Photo: Peter Schaaf Susan Kagan Susan Kagan, a pianist, author, and educator, Ferdinand holds a Ph.D from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation on the music of Archduke RIES Rudolph, Beethoven’s only composition student, was published by Pendragon Press in 1988, under the title Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s Patron, Pupil, and Friend. Susan Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 Kagan taught music history at Hunter College, CUNY, where she founded the New York Chapter of the American Beethoven Susan Kagan, Piano Society in 1995. She is also a reviewer of new recordings for Fanfare Magazine. Her discography includes three CDs issued by Koch International, in partnership with the renowned Czech violinist Josef Suk. She has also recorded two sets of Mozart piano concertos with the Suk Chamber Orchestra of Prague on the Vox and Koch Discover labels. Her CD of solo piano music by Beethoven and his pupils, Ferdinand Ries and Archduke Rudolph, was released by Koch International in 2001. In 2002 Susan Kagan was awarded the Antonín Dvorˇák Award by the Masaryk Academy of the Arts in Prague for her contribution to Czech musical culture. In 2007 she received the Ira F. Brilliant Lifetime Achievement Award for Beethoven Performance and Studies from the American Beethoven Society. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the American Beethoven Society, the American Schubert Institute, and the Schubert Society of the United States.

Get this free download from Classicsonline! Hummel: Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, III. Finale: Allegro assai Copy this Promotion Code Naxi8mSss916 and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/hum11_main. Downloading Instructions C 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. M 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. Y K 8.570796 4 NAXOS NAXOS Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven’s friend and pupil, was an exceptionally gifted composer in whose strangely prophetic piano sonatas one encounters Schubert’s poignant harmonic language, Mendelssohn’s expressive, sweet melodies and Chopin’s brilliant figuration. This recording features the magisterial Sonatas, Op.11 (Paris 1807-08) and the lovely Sonatina in A minor, Op.45 which was composed during Ries’s eventful concert tour in Russia during 1811-12. 8.570796 RIES: RIES: DDD Ferdinand Playing Time

Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 RIES 50:02 Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 (1784-1838) Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas • 1 Sonata in F minor, Op. 11, No. 2 19:37 1 Largo con espressione – Allegro agitato 9:23 2 Larghetto 4:36 3 Allegro 5:35 Sonata in E flat major, Op. 11, No. 1 21:50 www.naxos.com Printed & Assembled in USA. Disc Made in Canada. Booklet notes in English ൿ 4 Allegro moderato 10:09 Ltd. Naxos Rights International 5 Andante 4:40 & 6 Allegretto moderato (theme and 6 variations) 6:54 Ꭿ 2008 Sonatina in A minor, Op. 45 8:26 7 Allegro moderato 4:43 8 Allegretto scherzando 3:40 Susan Kagan, Piano C Includes Free Downloadable Bonus Track (Hummel: Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, III. Finale: Allegro assai) available at www.classicsonline.com. Please see booklet for full details. M 8.570796 Recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios (KAS), Astoria (Queens), New York, USA, 23 July (tracks 4–8) & 22 8.570796 October, 2007 (tracks 1–3) • Producer: Michael Fine • Engineer: Joe Castellon • Editor: Michael Fine Y Piano by Steinway • Piano technician: Dirk Dickten • Booklet notes: Susan Kagan Publisher: Artaria Editions (www.artaria.com) K Cover photo: Castle, Rhine River Valley, Germany (© Korshunova / Dreamstime.com)