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Metamorphosis Quintet DDD

The Metamorphosis Quintet was formed in 1994 by leading musicians of the Budapest Festival . Their BEETHOVEN 8.553827 repertoire mainly consists of the great classics, but works of contemporary composers are also performed by the Quintet. String Quintets Op. 1, No. 2, Op. 11 and Op. 17 Metamorphosis Quintet

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quintets, transcribed by Carl Khym (c.1770-?) rapidly repeated notes of the violin, as in the original, Beethoven contemplated replacing the last movement with some modification of the original piano imitation and issuing the variations as a separate work. Although Born in Bonn in 1770, was Khym, whose name sometimes appears as Chym. He of the theme, in a sonata-form movement, its exposition generally light-hearted, the nine variations include a already winning some distinction there, when, in 1787, was born about 1770 and was thus a more or less exact again repeated, before the central development and melancholy excursion into the minor in the fourth he was first sent to , to study with Mozart. The contemporary of Beethoven and seems to have been in recapitulation. variation and again in the dramatic seventh version of illness of his mother forced an early return from this the service of the Emperor. Little is known of his life, Beethoven’s 1798 Trio in B flat major, Op. 11, the theme, with contrapuntal elements in the ninth, venture and her subsequent death left him with but he left a number of chamber music compositions popularly known as the Gassenhauer Trio (Popular before the syncopations of the final section. responsibility for his younger brothers, in view of the and competent and effective arrangements of works by Song Trio), takes its nickname from the use Beethoven The Bohemian horn player Jan Václav Stich, domestic and professional failures of his father, other composers, with the string quintet version of made, in the last movement, of a theme taken from known professionally by the Italian form of his name, formerly a singer in the musical establishment of Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio, Op. 11, appearing in Vienna Joseph Weigl’s comic L’amor marinaro Giovanni Punto, boasted a considerable reputation as a Beethoven’s then patron, the Archbishop of Cologne. In and Pest in 1810/1811, and of the Horn Sonata, (Love among the Sailors), a terzetto for three basses, virtuoso. In Paris in 1778 Mozart had written a solo part 1792 Beethoven was sent once more to Vienna, now to published in Bonn by Simrock in 1817. The Pria ch’io l’impegno. Although often performed in a for him in his Sinfonia Concertante and he had study with Haydn, whom he had met in Bonn. arrangement of the Piano Trio, Op. 1, No. 2, seems to contemporary arrangement for violin, cello and piano, appeared to acclaim in the major capitals of Europe. It Beethoven’s early career in Vienna was helped date from 1815. Nothing is known of Khym after 1819. the original work was scored for a clarinet rather than a was his visit to Vienna in 1800 that elicited from very considerably by the circumstances of his move In 1795 Beethoven published a set of three Piano violin and owed its instrumentation to the composer’s Beethoven his Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17, there. The Archbishop was a son of the Empress Maria Trios, dedicated to Prince Carl Lichnowsky, in whose association with the clarinettist Josef Bähr, who committed to paper, it seems, the day before the first Theresa and there were introductions to leading house they were first performed, in the presence of suggested the theme for the last movement variations. performance by Punto and the composer at a concert on members of society in the imperial capital. Here Haydn, who had reservations about the possible Bähr collaborated with Beethoven in performances of 18th April, with Beethoven playing partly from memory Beethoven was able to establish an early position for reception of the third, an implied criticism to which the his Quintet, Op. 16, and took part in the first and partly from the inspiration of the moment. The himself as a pianist of remarkable ability, coupled with composer took exception. The second of the group, the performances of the Septet, Op. 20 and the Sextet, work was a success and was immediately played again a clear genius in the necessarily related arts of Piano Trio in G major, Op. 1, No. 2, makes a Op. 71. He was employed in the musical establishment in early May in Pest, where it seemed that Punto improvisation and composition. The onset of deafness convincing string quintet. The first movement starts of Count Johann Joseph Liechtenstein. The first quarrelled with Beethoven, who refused to appear with at the turn of the century seemed an irony of Fate. It led with a slow introduction, with the more decorative performance of the Trio, according to Ferdinand Ries, him at a following provincial engagement. Both Beethoven gradually away from a career as a virtuoso melodic elements now allotted to the violin, which took place in the house of Count Fries in the presence of appeared again in Vienna on 30th January 1801, performer and into an area of composition where he opens the Allegro vivace with a lively first subject the rival virtuoso pianist Daniel Steibelt. Since the however, to play the work at a concert in aid of those was able to make remarkable changes and extensions of leading to a reasonable division of labour between the piano part gave relatively little scope for display, wounded at the disastrous battle of Hohenlinden. existing practice. Deafness tended to accentuate his other instruments of the quintet. The first violin Steibelt managed to outshine Beethoven in performing Khym’s transcription makes effective use of the eccentricities and paranoia, which became extreme as introduces the second subject in the sonata-form his own quintet. A week later Steibelt provoked material, redistributed largely according to the range of time went on. At the same time it allowed him to movement, with its repeated exposition, development Beethoven by playing a brilliant set of variations on the the original instruments, the horn part significantly develop his gifts for counterpoint. He continued to and recapitulation. The characteristically sustained Weigl melody of Beethoven’s last movement, after allotted to the cello in the opening. The material is revolutionise forms inherited from his predecessors, piano melody of the original work in the slow which the latter took his revenge by a virtuoso developed in a central section, before returning, with notably Haydn and Mozart, expanding these almost to movement is aptly transferred to strings, its opening improvisation on a motif from Steibelt’s quintet, the necessary adjustments, in recapitulation. There is a bursting-point, and introducing innovation after theme repeated an octave higher, after which the first seizing a cello part, which he placed upside down on brief slow introduction to the final F major Rondo. Here innovation as he grew older. He died in 1827, his death violin leads on to a secondary theme, both themes soon the music stand. The sonata-form first movement of the the cello answers the violin in the principal theme, the occasion of public mourning in Vienna. to return, with a brief excursion into the tonic minor key Trio has great charm and assured craftsmanship in its which provides a framework for intervening episodes. The three works here included are arrangements of before the closing section. The Scherzo is introduced by subtle shifts of key. The following Adagio cantabile two trios by Beethoven and of his Horn Sonata. These the cello, joined at once by the other instruments, and bears a distinct melodic resemblance to the Minuet of were made by the Bohemian virtuoso oboist Carl framing a B minor Trio. The final Presto opens with the the Piano Sonata, Op. 49, No. 2. According to Czerny, Keith Anderson 8.553827 2 3 8.553827 553827bk Beethoven US 29/4/03 5:59 PM Page 2

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quintets, transcribed by Carl Khym (c.1770-?) rapidly repeated notes of the violin, as in the original, Beethoven contemplated replacing the last movement with some modification of the original piano imitation and issuing the variations as a separate work. Although Born in Bonn in 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was Khym, whose name sometimes appears as Chym. He of the theme, in a sonata-form movement, its exposition generally light-hearted, the nine variations include a already winning some distinction there, when, in 1787, was born about 1770 and was thus a more or less exact again repeated, before the central development and melancholy excursion into the minor in the fourth he was first sent to Vienna, to study with Mozart. The contemporary of Beethoven and seems to have been in recapitulation. variation and again in the dramatic seventh version of illness of his mother forced an early return from this the service of the Emperor. Little is known of his life, Beethoven’s 1798 Trio in B flat major, Op. 11, the theme, with contrapuntal elements in the ninth, venture and her subsequent death left him with but he left a number of chamber music compositions popularly known as the Gassenhauer Trio (Popular before the syncopations of the final section. responsibility for his younger brothers, in view of the and competent and effective arrangements of works by Song Trio), takes its nickname from the use Beethoven The Bohemian horn player Jan Václav Stich, domestic and professional failures of his father, other composers, with the string quintet version of made, in the last movement, of a theme taken from known professionally by the Italian form of his name, formerly a singer in the musical establishment of Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio, Op. 11, appearing in Vienna Joseph Weigl’s comic opera L’amor marinaro Giovanni Punto, boasted a considerable reputation as a Beethoven’s then patron, the Archbishop of Cologne. In and Pest in 1810/1811, and of the Horn Sonata, (Love among the Sailors), a terzetto for three basses, virtuoso. In Paris in 1778 Mozart had written a solo part 1792 Beethoven was sent once more to Vienna, now to published in Bonn by Simrock in 1817. The Pria ch’io l’impegno. Although often performed in a for him in his Sinfonia Concertante and he had study with Haydn, whom he had met in Bonn. arrangement of the Piano Trio, Op. 1, No. 2, seems to contemporary arrangement for violin, cello and piano, appeared to acclaim in the major capitals of Europe. It Beethoven’s early career in Vienna was helped date from 1815. Nothing is known of Khym after 1819. the original work was scored for a clarinet rather than a was his visit to Vienna in 1800 that elicited from very considerably by the circumstances of his move In 1795 Beethoven published a set of three Piano violin and owed its instrumentation to the composer’s Beethoven his Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17, there. The Archbishop was a son of the Empress Maria Trios, dedicated to Prince Carl Lichnowsky, in whose association with the clarinettist Josef Bähr, who committed to paper, it seems, the day before the first Theresa and there were introductions to leading house they were first performed, in the presence of suggested the theme for the last movement variations. performance by Punto and the composer at a concert on members of society in the imperial capital. Here Haydn, who had reservations about the possible Bähr collaborated with Beethoven in performances of 18th April, with Beethoven playing partly from memory Beethoven was able to establish an early position for reception of the third, an implied criticism to which the his Quintet, Op. 16, and took part in the first and partly from the inspiration of the moment. The himself as a pianist of remarkable ability, coupled with composer took exception. The second of the group, the performances of the Septet, Op. 20 and the Sextet, work was a success and was immediately played again a clear genius in the necessarily related arts of Piano Trio in G major, Op. 1, No. 2, makes a Op. 71. He was employed in the musical establishment in early May in Pest, where it seemed that Punto improvisation and composition. The onset of deafness convincing string quintet. The first movement starts of Count Johann Joseph Liechtenstein. The first quarrelled with Beethoven, who refused to appear with at the turn of the century seemed an irony of Fate. It led with a slow introduction, with the more decorative performance of the Trio, according to Ferdinand Ries, him at a following provincial engagement. Both Beethoven gradually away from a career as a virtuoso melodic elements now allotted to the violin, which took place in the house of Count Fries in the presence of appeared again in Vienna on 30th January 1801, performer and into an area of composition where he opens the Allegro vivace with a lively first subject the rival virtuoso pianist Daniel Steibelt. Since the however, to play the work at a concert in aid of those was able to make remarkable changes and extensions of leading to a reasonable division of labour between the piano part gave relatively little scope for display, wounded at the disastrous battle of Hohenlinden. existing practice. Deafness tended to accentuate his other instruments of the quintet. The first violin Steibelt managed to outshine Beethoven in performing Khym’s transcription makes effective use of the eccentricities and paranoia, which became extreme as introduces the second subject in the sonata-form his own quintet. A week later Steibelt provoked material, redistributed largely according to the range of time went on. At the same time it allowed him to movement, with its repeated exposition, development Beethoven by playing a brilliant set of variations on the the original instruments, the horn part significantly develop his gifts for counterpoint. He continued to and recapitulation. The characteristically sustained Weigl melody of Beethoven’s last movement, after allotted to the cello in the opening. The material is revolutionise forms inherited from his predecessors, piano melody of the original work in the slow which the latter took his revenge by a virtuoso developed in a central section, before returning, with notably Haydn and Mozart, expanding these almost to movement is aptly transferred to strings, its opening improvisation on a motif from Steibelt’s quintet, the necessary adjustments, in recapitulation. There is a bursting-point, and introducing innovation after theme repeated an octave higher, after which the first seizing a cello part, which he placed upside down on brief slow introduction to the final F major Rondo. Here innovation as he grew older. He died in 1827, his death violin leads on to a secondary theme, both themes soon the music stand. The sonata-form first movement of the the cello answers the violin in the principal theme, the occasion of public mourning in Vienna. to return, with a brief excursion into the tonic minor key Trio has great charm and assured craftsmanship in its which provides a framework for intervening episodes. The three works here included are arrangements of before the closing section. The Scherzo is introduced by subtle shifts of key. The following Adagio cantabile two trios by Beethoven and of his Horn Sonata. These the cello, joined at once by the other instruments, and bears a distinct melodic resemblance to the Minuet of were made by the Bohemian virtuoso oboist Carl framing a B minor Trio. The final Presto opens with the the Piano Sonata, Op. 49, No. 2. According to Czerny, Keith Anderson 8.553827 2 3 8.553827 553827bk Beethoven US 29/4/03 5:59 PM Page 4

Metamorphosis Quintet DDD

The Metamorphosis Quintet was formed in 1994 by leading musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Their BEETHOVEN 8.553827 repertoire mainly consists of the great classics, but works of contemporary composers are also performed by the Quintet. String Quintets Op. 1, No. 2, Op. 11 and Op. 17 Metamorphosis Quintet

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