Beethoven: Piano Pieces & Fragments Sergio Gallo

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
• 1 13 Variations on "Es war einmal ein alter Mann", WoO 66 13:10
• 2 Pastorale in C Major, Bia. 622 (Ed. F. Rovelli) 00:23
• 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden):
• 3 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden): No. 3 in C Major, Alla marcia 00:25
• 4 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden): No. 4 in A Major, Allegro giocoso 00:41
• 5 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden): No. 6 in A Major, Allegro 00:31
• 6 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden): No. 7 in A Major, Presto 00:40
• 7 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden): No. 8 in G Major, Allegretto 00:43
• 8 12 Piano Miniatures (Excerpts Ed. J. Van der Zanden): No. 9 in D Major, Menuetto 01:26
• Ludwig van Beethoven:
• 9 Allegretto in C Minor, WoO 53, Hess 66 03:09
• 10 3 Imitative Movements, Bia. 69 00:58
• 11 Allegro in C Major, Bia. 279 (Ed. A. Schmitz) 00:10
• 12 Kaplied, Hess 63 (After C.F.D. Schubart) 00:36
• 13 Canon in A-Flat Major, WoO 222 00:25
• 14 Canon in G Major, Hess 274 (After Mattheson) 01:06
• 15 Adagio in G Major, Hess 70 (Fragment Ed. L. Lockwood & A. Gosman) 00:40
• 16 Draft for Piano in A Major, Hess 60 (Ed. A. Schmitz) 00:31
• 17 Theme & Variation in A Major, Hess 72 02:42
• 18 O Hoffnung, WoO 200 00:22
• 19 Presto in G Major, Bia. 277 (Ed. A. Schmitz) 00:34
• 20 4 Bagatelles, WoO 213 (Excerpts): No. 2 in G Major, Finale, Bia. 282 [Ed. A. Schmitz] 00:29
• 21 Piano Etude in B-Flat Major, Hess 58 00:41
• 22 Piano Etude in C Major, Hess 59 00:25
• 23 String Quintet in C Major, WoO 62 "Letzter musikalischer Gedanke" (Completed A. Diabelli for Piano) 02:47
• 24 9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63 13:18
• 25 Piano Sonata in F Major, WoO 50 01:33
• 26 6 Variations on a Swiss Song, WoO 64 (Version for Piano) 02:55
• 27 Andante in C Major, WoO 211 00:58
• 28 Molto adagio in G Major, Hess 71 (Fragment Ed. L. Lockwood & A. Gosman) 01:08
• 2 Cadenzas in D Minor, WoO 58 (After Mozart's K. 466):
• 29 2 Cadenzas in D Minor, WoO 58 (After Mozart's K. 466): No. 1, Allegro 02:33
• 30 2 Cadenzas in D Minor, WoO 58 (After Mozart's K. 466): No. 2, Rondo. Allegro assai 01:25
• Ludwig van Beethoven:
• 31 Rondo for Piano, Hess 84 (After Beethoven's Op. 61a) 00:31
• 32 Cadenza for Piano, Hess 85 (After Beethoven's Op. 61a) 00:27
• 4 Bagatelles, WoO 213 (Excerpts Ed. B. Cooper):
• 33 4 Bagatelles, WoO 213 (Excerpts Ed. B. Cooper): No. 1 in D-Flat Major, Andante, Bia. 283 01:02
• 34 4 Bagatelles, WoO 213 (Excerpts Ed. B. Cooper): No. 4 in A Major, Rondo, Bia. 275 00:49
• Ludwig van Beethoven:
• 35 Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise" (1822 Version) 03:28
• 36 Piano Sonata in D Major, Bia. 213 "Quasi una fantasia" (Fragment Transcr. J. Kerman) 21:45
• Total Runtime 01:25:26

Info for Beethoven: Piano Pieces & Fragments

Including premiere recordings, this program provides us with a privileged opportunity to engage with 36 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s rarely heard sketches, variations and briefest of compositions, even the earliest of which have much to teach us about the emergence of his unique voice and style. The range of Beethoven’s musical experimentation reveals a lasting interest in counterpoint, as well as practical pages such as cadenzas for a Mozart concerto, an incomplete sonata and a second version of the famous bagatelle Für Elise. A significant supplement to his greatest works, these miniatures bring the full arc of Beethoven’s singular genius into ever clearer focus.

Sergio Gallo, piano

Sergio Gallo
A Steinway artist, Sergio Gallo specializes in the repertoire of the Romantic period, especially Liszt and his contemporaries, including Schumann, Henselt, Brahms, and Chopin. He has also championed the work of composers in Brazil, the nation of his birth. Gallo has recorded several acclaimed CD's for Eroica, with forthcoming projects committed to the Naxos and Naxos Grand Piano labels. His recordings have received high praise from Gramophone Magazine (of his most recent Villa-Lobos recording: "splendid playing of a lively programme… [a] nuanced performance… played with exceptional artistry") and American Record Guide ("it is hard to imagine a pianist leaving me with a more intense feeling of nobility"). In 2011, Gallo won the Global Music Awards "Award of Excellence" for his album, Mostly Villa-Lobos: 20th Century Piano Music from the Americas.

Gallo has performed with orchestras throughout the Americas and worldwide. In the last decade, he has performed in Turkey, Brazil, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Serbia, Portugal, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, and China, as well as in recitals given across the United States. Since his Brazilian national radio debut in 1986 (Radio Cultura, São Paulo) and his European radio debut in 1988 (Radio France, Paris), Gallo's work has been regularly played on classical music radio outlets around the world. His performances of Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy L.123, Schumann's Concerto in A minor, Op.54, and Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 in D-flat Minor, Op.23 were highlighted in 2011 Atlanta symphonic performances.

Sergio Gallo is the winner of concerto competitions of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and of the University Symphony in Santa Barbara. He has received a grant from the Henry Cowell Incentive Funds at the American Music Center in New York, New York, to record works by the composer, and this recording has been featured in the program Piano Matters with David Dubal. Gallo twice toured North Dakota with a Challenge America Fast-Track Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Gallo earned the Diplôme d'Excellence at the Conservatoire Européen de Musique de Paris (1987), a Post-Graduate Certificate at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest (1992), an M.M. and Artist Diploma at the University of Cincinnati (1994 and 1995 respectively), and the Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1998). Among his further training and involvement in professional workshops, Gallo participated in the Daniel Berenboim Workshop for Pianists and Conductors at Carnegie Hall (2000), the Orchestra Stabile Summer Festival (Bergamo, Italy, 1991), the Sergei Rachmaninoff International Courses in Piano Performance (Tambov, Russia, 1988), and the Seminaire Jean Fassina (Paris, 1986). He lives in the United States where he is Associate Professor of Piano Performance at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and is appointed to the affiliated artist staff of the Rocky Ridge Music Academy in Estes Park, Colorado.

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