Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 109 for Orchestra

[gprengel]

Hi, I'd like to present here now 2 movements from the late piano sonata op. 109 by Beethoven set by me  for orchestra with especially the glorious final Andante movement.

http://www.gerdprengel.de/Beeth_op109_II_orch.mp3
http://www.gerdprengel.de/Beeth_op109_III_orch.mp3

I am aware that for some people this is a kind of sacrileg to do that with the last 3 piano sonatas that are so special, but for me it was a huge enrichment and a wonderful  way  getting to know these sonatas even more...

Gerd

[tpaloj]

Wonderful orchestrations. And hardly anything sacrilegious, for classical composers and conductors themselves it was common to take and spin, arrange, paraphrase, orchestrate each-others works.

I don't know if there are other orchestrations of the last 3 sonatas, but Weingartner has orchestrated Hammerklavier. This reminds me that there's another partial attempt at orchestrating HK by Arthur Friedheim who was one of Liszt's pupils. The manuscript is digitized, but it's unfinished: there's only about 2/3 of the first movement.

https://cdm16613.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16613coll1/id/194