Performance of recently found Beethoven

[susanwen]

A recently discovered manuscript of the Andante movement from Beethoven's Oboe Concerto will be performed at Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD on December 2. Tickets are on sale now, but they are expensive by my standards. If you'd like to hear the andante, it is at:

http://tk1.publicaster.com/DC/ctr.as...970=6874&66=30

(if I did the computer part of this right).

[Hofrat]

I have it recorded on CD along with the violin concerto movement in Cmajor. Most interesting music.

[Michael]

This is not a recently discovered piece but a "realisation" of the surviving sketches. It can be heard in a MIDI performance on the "Unknown Beethoven" website. I don't usually like these reconstructions but, on listening to the original sketches, I found that there was quite a lot of material there from the andante section and all this has been used on the above piece with very credible results. It's a very nice theme (very similar to the opening of the Opus 110 piano sonata) and very pleasant to listen to. I could have done without the lengthy (and unlikely) cadenza but a as a stand-alone piece, it probably needed a bit of beefing-up for performance purposes.
Thanks, Susan.

[Chris]

Thanks for the heads-up. I might go to this.

[susanwen]

I have it recorded on CD along with the violin concerto movement in Cmajor. Most interesting music.

Do you mean your personal CD recording, or is it commercially available?

[Hofrat]

It is a copy of a master commercial recording that was to hit the market in 2003. The problem was that the conductor of the recording orchestra resigned suddenly. Now there is a legal battle over who gets which rights of the recording. So, only a select few who received copies of the master have been able to enjoy this rare CD.

[Michael]

So how did you come across this recording, Susan? I am delighted to have it and have recorded it (with my obsolete minidisc recorder). Oops! I hope I haven't broken any copyright laws!
But, since nobody but me will be hearing it, I think I am quite safe.

[susanwen]

It is a link from the Strathmore webpage, entirely legitimate. I was a recent subscriber, and I'm still on their mailing list.

[Preston]

Most interesting... I did not know Beethoven wrote a lost Oboe Concerto. Does anyone have the date in which he wrote this? Or any further information on it? Thanks.

Susan (I guess it is alright to call you that), thank you for the file, very much.

[Hofrat]

My trusty "New Hess Catalog" dates the oboe concerto movement as 1792-1793.

[Michael]

[QUOTE=Preston;40954]Most interesting... I did not know Beethoven wrote a lost Oboe Concerto. Does anyone have the date in which he wrote this? Or any further information on it? Thanks.

QUOTE]

If you go to the "Unheard Beethoven" site you can hear a couple of themes from all the movements. Look for the Hess numbers, and it's somewhere around No. 13 or 14, I think.

[Peter]

My trusty "New Hess Catalog" dates the oboe concerto movement as 1792-1793.

I'm surprised the new Hess takes it as late as 1793 - Haydn refers to the work in his letter of that year to the Elector in Bonn who in his reply stated that it had been written and performed in Bonn.

[Hofrat]

The Oboe Concerto movement, Hess 12, was completed in Vienna around 1792-1793, but Beethoven worked on it in Bonn, which is how the Elector knew about it.

[Preston]

Thanks for the information.