Daniel Heide

Beethoven, Sonatas Vol. 2

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Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085534937
Catnr: AVI 8553493
Release date: 23 September 2022
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23 September 2022
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I and the „Middle“ Ones
Result to cope with the pandemic
BEETHOVEN SONATAS Vol. II

When I first heard Beethoven’s Sonata No. 15 in D Major, op. 28, the “Pastoral”, it immediately conquered my heart. The swaying, deeply resounding, velvety bass notes and the tender theme in the right hand continue to produce a melodious sense of well-being in me to this day. A series of slow, melodious arches alternating with incisive, characteristic insertions create the general mood in the first movement.

Then the entire second movement is pervaded by a relentless staccato figure in the left hand: these tranquil sixteenth notes, with their metronomical precision, provide a guiding framework for the right hand’s dignified theme. In the middle section, we are surprised by the onset of a harlequinesque alternation between dotted chords and whimsical triplets in the right hand, which lasts until the initial main theme and its accurately pulsating left-hand accompaniment call everyone back to order. In the last section, Beethoven accelerates the theme to thirty-second note runs – leading to a culmination before the music suddenly becomes quiet and the movement fades out in tranquil transcendence.

In the scherzo we are confronted with an accurate, reactive joy of music-making combined with an outgoing sense of humor, and the same variety of pulsating playing pleasure is likewise prolonged throughout the last movement. This is not a furious finale, but a mischievous, swaying Rundgesang (stanza-and-refrain) with an affectionate rondo theme that returns again and again. A breakneck coda in Presto time allows the soloist to conclude this grand sonata with bravura. I still well remember my admission exam for the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1996. My programme included Beethoven’s “Pastoral” sonata; the jury allowed me to play portions of all movements, and I was admitted!
(Auszug aus dem Booklettext, des Interpreten)

BEETHOVEN SONATAS Vol. II
ICH UND DIE „MITTLEREN“
Als ich Beethovens Sonate No.15, D-Dur op.28, die „Pastorale“, zum ersten Mal hörte hatte Sie sofort mein Herz erobert. Die samtig-sonor schwingenden Basstöne und das zärtliche Thema in der rechten Hand erzeugten (und erzeugen) in mir immer ein kantables Wohlgefühl. Durch den ersten Satz ziehen sich immer wieder sehr lange gesangliche Bögen die ihm im Wechsel mit den prägnanten und charakteristischen Einschüben seine Grundatmosphäre verleihen. Durch den gesamten zweiten Satz bestimmt die unerbittliche Stakkatofigur der linken Hand den Grundcharakter. 

Fast wie ein klingendes Metronom führen diese ruhigen Sechzehntel disziplinierend das erhabenes Motiv der rechten Hand. Im Mittelteil überrascht ein harlekineskes Wechselspiel punktierter Akkorde mit verspielten Triolen der rechten Hand bis das Hauptthema nebst akkurater linker Hand wieder zur Ordnung ruft. Zum Ende hin steigert Beethoven dieses Motiv in durchlaufenden 32stel zum Höhepunkt um den Satz dann plötzlich wieder still transzendierend verklingen zu lassen. 

Im Scherzo trifft man auf feinnervige Spielfreude gepaart mit ausgelassenem Humor. Diese grundsätzliche pulsierende Spielfreude zieht sich auch durch den ganzen letzten Satz. Kein rasendes Finale, sondern ein verschmitzt schwingender Rundgesang mit einem immer wiederkehrenden liebevoll ansetzenden Rondothema. Zum Ende dann doch noch eine furiose Presto-Coda in der Solist mit Bravur diese große Sonate enden lässt.

 Ich erinnere mich noch gut an meine Eignungsprüfung an der Weimarer Hochschule für Musik „Franz Liszt“ im Jahre 1996, u.a. stand auch die Pastorale auf meinem Programm, aus allen Sätzen ließ man mich spielen - am Ende ließ man mich auch zum Studium zu……  (Auszug aus dem Booklettext, 

Artist(s)

Daniel Heide (piano)

Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the vocal accompanists and chamber musicians most in demand on the current international music scene, making appearances throughout Europe as well as in the Far East. Heide studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his hometown with Prof. Ludwig Bätzel, and received valuable counsel from outstanding artists including Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He collaborates on a regular basis with renowned vocalists including Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Konstantin Krimmel, Julian Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Katharina Konradi, Patrick Grahl, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Johannes Weisser, Roman Trekel, and Natalie Perez. Heide also collaborated as a duo partner with the late German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis: their CD Poemes with artsongs by Claude Debussy was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize. In...
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Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the vocal accompanists and chamber musicians most in demand on the current international music scene, making appearances throughout Europe as well as in the Far East. Heide studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his hometown with Prof. Ludwig Bätzel, and received valuable counsel from outstanding artists including Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
He collaborates on a regular basis with renowned vocalists including Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Konstantin Krimmel, Julian Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Katharina Konradi, Patrick Grahl, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Johannes Weisser, Roman Trekel, and Natalie Perez.
Heide also collaborated as a duo partner with the late German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis: their CD Poemes with artsongs by Claude Debussy was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize.
In chamber music he gives public performances with soloists including Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz, Friedemann Eichhorn, Andreas Willwohl, Barbara Buntrock, Julian Steckel, Isang Enders, Konstanze von Gutzeit, Benoit Fromanger, Danjulo Ishizaka, and the Mandelring Quartett.
Heide laid a further foundation for his career as vocal accompanist in 2011, when he launched Der lyrische Salon at Ettersburg Castle near Weimar, a vocal recital series where he has accompanied a great number of outstanding singers on over 70 occasions.
Apart from his intense concert schedule, Heide’s activities are documented on a number of CD releases – most recently Dichterliebe with Patrick Grahl (CAvi, 2020), Liebende with Katharina Konradi (CAvi, 2021); Schubert‘s Die schöne Müllerin mit André Schuen released by DG (2021).
In 2016 André Schuen‘s first Lieder recital partnered with Daniel Heide received the ECHO, the album Wanderer 2019 the OPUS award (both CAvi-music). For the next years Daniel Heide is masterminding the 7 CD project with the complete songs by Franz Liszt subsequently folloed by a new work catalogue of Liszt‘s artsong output.
He also loves the genre of melodrama, working in spoken word programmes with actors and actresses of the likes of Christian Brückner, Thomas Thieme, Hanns Zischler, Markus Meyer, Sky Dumont, and Udo Samel.
For 13 years, Heide taught vocal accompaniment, chamber music, and instrumental accompaniment (Korrepetition) at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar. He is currently much in demand giving masterclasses and private coaching in the same areas, also with the intent of promoting and supporting young vocal artists and their piano partners.
With the onset of the Corona pandemic in March 2020, Daniel Heide devoted more of his time to studying solo piano repertoire, focussing on sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

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01.
Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major, Op. 28 Pastorale (1801): I Allegro
10:08
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major, Op. 28 Pastorale (1801): II Andante
06:35
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major, Op. 28 Pastorale (1801): III Scherzo. Allergo vivace
02:15
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 15 D-Dur / in D Major, Op. 28 Pastorale (1801): IV Rondo. Allegro ma non tanto
05:33
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata Sonata quasi una Fantasia No. 14 cis-Moll / in C sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight (1801): I Adagio sostenuto
05:20
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata Sonata quasi una Fantasia No. 14 cis-Moll / in C sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight (1801): II Allegretto
02:14
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata Sonata quasi una Fantasia No. 14 cis-Moll / in C sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight (1801): III Presto agitato
07:40
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): I Andante con variazioni
01:17
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): Variation I
01:12
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): Variation II
00:54
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): Variation III
01:21
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): Variation IV
00:53
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): Variation V
01:46
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): II Scherzo. Allegro molto
03:11
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): III Maestoso andante (Marcia funebre sulla morte d’un eroe)
06:00
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Klaviersonate / Piano Sonata No. 12 As-Dur / in A flat Major, Op. 26 (1800/1801): IV Allegro
03:19
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