24:50 Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN

BEETHOVEN Works for Flute • 1 Duos for Flute and Bassoon • Duo for Two Flutes • Serenade Kazunori Seo, Flute Patrick Gallois, Flute • Mitsuo Kodama, Bassoon Asuka Sezaki, Violin • Koichi Komine, Viola Ludwig van Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) BEETHOVEN Works for Flute • 1 (1770–1827) Born in Bonn in 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was of related arts of improvisation and composition. At the varied musical ancestry. Of particular significance in the same time he was able to profit from lessons in Works for Flute • 1 family was his grandfather, whose name he bore, and who counterpoint with Albrechtsberger and in Italian word- served as Kapellmeister to the Archbishop Elector of setting with the old court composer and Kapellmeister of Duo No. 1 in C major for flute and bassoon, WoO 27* 13:42 Cologne from 1761 until his death in 1773. A native of the Imperial Chapel, Antonio Salieri. The onset of Flanders, he had served as a singer in various churches deafness at the turn of the century seemed an irony of 1 Allegro comodo 7:36 before his appointment in 1733 to Bonn, where he also set Fate. It led Beethoven gradually away from a career as a 2 Larghetto sostenuto 2:19 up a wine business. Beethoven’s father, Johann, became virtuoso performer and into an area of composition where 3 Rondo: Allegretto 3:43 a singer in the Bonn court musical establishment, but he was able to make remarkable changes and extensions enjoyed a much less distinguished career, his musical of existing practice. Deafness tended to accentuate his Duo No. 2 in F major for flute and bassoon, WoO 27* 13:04 abilities increasingly deteriorating. His mother had eccentricities and paranoia, which became extreme as 4 Allegro affettuoso 7:59 suffered from some form of alcoholism, leading to her time went on. At the same time it allowed him to develop 5 Aria: Larghetto 2:03 seclusion in an appropriate institution, and her only his gifts for counterpoint. He continued to revolutionise surviving child, Johann, brought a further problem with his forms inherited from his predecessors, notably Haydn and 6 Rondo: Allegretto moderato 2:59 marriage to a young widow without the old Kapellmeister’s Mozart, expanding these almost to bursting-point, and approval. The Beethoven household was not a happy introducing innovation after innovation as he grew older. Duo No. 3 in B flat major for flute and bassoon, WoO 27* 15:14 one. Johann became increasingly inadequate both as a He died in 1827, his death the occasion of public 7 Allegro sostenuto 8:48 singer and as a father and husband, with his wife always mourning in Vienna. 8 Aria con Variazioni: Andantino con moto – Allegro assai 6:23 ready to draw invidious comparisons between him and his There has been some doubt about the authenticity of own father. Beethoven, however, was trained as a the three Duos for clarinet and bassoon, conjecturally Duo in G major for two flutes, WoO 26 5:08 musician, albeit erratically as far as his father was dated by some to Beethoven’s final years in Bonn, concerned, and duly entered the service of the Archbishop 1790–92 and by others to the turn of the century. The 9 Allegro con brio 2:35 as an organist and as a string-player in the archiepiscopal pieces appeared in Paris in the second decade of the 0 Menuetto quasi allegretto 2:32 orchestra. He was already winning some distinction in 19th century and, whatever their origin, make a pleasing Bonn, when, in 1787, he was first sent to Vienna, to study and useful addition to repertoire, either in their original Serenade in D major for flute, violin and viola, Op. 25 24:50 with Mozart. The illness of his mother forced an early form or in various arrangements, whether for violin and ! Entrata: Allegro 3:36 return from this venture and her subsequent death left him cello, or, as here, for flute and bassoon. Duo No. 1 in C @ Tempo ordinario d’un menuetto 5:25 with responsibility for his two younger brothers, in view of major opens with a sonata-form movement in which # Allegro molto 2:09 his father’s domestic and professional failures. In 1792 melodies are equitably shared between the two Beethoven was sent once more to Vienna, a few weeks instruments. The second movement is in a melancholy C $ Andante con Variazioni 6:25 before his father’s death, now to study with Haydn, whom minor, followed, without a break, by a final Rondo, which % Allegro scherzando e vivace 1:48 he had already met in Bonn. includes a minor key episode before the final appearance ^ Adagio – Allegro vivace e disinvolto 5:21 Beethoven’s early career in Vienna was helped very of the cheerful principal theme. Duo No. 2 in F major considerably by the circumstances of his move there. The entrusts the first theme to the cello, followed by the violin. * Transcribed by Kazunori Seo Archbishop was a son of the Empress Maria Theresa and The D minor Aria that provides the slow movement, gives there were introductions to leading members of society in the melody to the flute, and the work ends with a Rondo. the imperial capital. Here Beethoven was able to establish Duo No. 3 in B flat major follows its sonata-form first an early position for himself as a pianist of remarkable movement with a second that is a series of variations, the ability, coupled with a clear genius in the necessarily first with a running bassoon accompaniment and a second in which the bassoon accompanies rapid triplet frames two Trios, the first for violin and viola, with running Patrick Gallois semiquaver figuration for the flute, The third variation semiquavers for each in turn. The second Trio centres on introduces syncopation and the fourth has the melody the flute. The third movement is in D minor, with a Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians leading highly allocated to each instrument in turn, accompanied by contrasting section in the major. It is followed by a G successful international careers as both soloist and conductor. From the age of 17 rapid demisemiquavers. The movement ends with a final major Andante, which makes initial use of double- he studied the flute with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatoire and at the Allegro assai. stopping in the strings, adding a fuller dimension to the age of 21 was appointed principal flute in the Orchestre National de France, under The Duo in G major, WoO 26, is scored for two flutes harmony. The first of the three variations that follow has Lorin Maazel, playing under many famous conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, and bears the date 23 August 1792, with a dedication to rapid figuration for the flute, and, as the variation Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum and Sergiu Celibidache. He the composer’s friend J.M.Degenhart, completed, proceeds, wide leaps. The second variation makes use of held this post until 1984, when he decided to focus on his solo career, which has apparently near midnight on the August date indicated. It triplets, principally for the violin, and the final third subsequently taken him throughout the world. He regularly performs and records consists of a sprightly Allegro, followed by a Minuet variation allows the viola to provide the melodic interest, with leading artists and has a wide repertoire both as a conductor and as a flautist. framing a contrasting trio section. accompanied by rapid figuration for the violin. The Beethoven’s Serenade in D major, Op. 25, has been variation ends with a coda. The fifth movement, marked www.patrickgallois.com variously dated, either to 1794–95 or thereabouts or to the Allegro scherzando e vivace, introduces dotted rhythms later date of 1801. At all events it was published by Cappi and includes a D minor central section. The work ends in Vienna in 1802 and later published by Hoffmeister in a with an Adagio, leading, after a brief flute cadenza, to a version for flute or violin and piano, perhaps arranged by lively final rondo with activity distributed between the Photo: Tiina Osara another. The original version is scored for flute, violin and three instruments. viola and is in six movements. It opens with an Entrata, a traditional practice, followed by a stately Minuet that Keith Anderson Mitsuo Kodama Mitsuo Kodama was born in 1971 in Iwakuni, Japan. He studied bassoon at Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo with Yoshihide Kiryu, the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Milan Turković and Stepan Turnovsky, and the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva with Daniele Damiano. He won second prize at the Japan Wind and Percussion Competition in 1998. He has worked with the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the Phiharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, and is currently a member of the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz. Asuka Sezaki Kazunori Seo Asuka Sezaki studied at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, and at the Photo: Koji Aoki The flautist Kazunori Seo was born in Kitakyushu Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, under a full (Japan) in 1974. He began his music studies at the age scholarship from the Cultural Agency of Japan. She has won several competitions, of six with his musician parents, going on to study in appeared at leading festivals and performs with many Japanese orchestras and Paris with Raymond Guiot, Kurt Redel, Patrick Gallois, soloists. Since autumn 2011, she has been studying under Felix Ayo in Italy as a Benoît Fromanger and Alain Marion at the Conservatoire scholarship student of the Rohm Music Foundation.

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