L.v. Beethoven - 15 Variations and Fuga("Eroica"), Op.35 (YunChan Lim)

L.v.Beethoven - 15 Variations and fuga("Eroica"), Op.35
Variations 0:00
Fuga 18:40
The Variations and Fugue for Piano in E♭ major, Op. 35 are a set of fifteen variations (plus three "bonus" variations) for solo piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1802. They are commonly referred to as the Eroica Variations because a different set of variations on the same theme were used as the finale of his Symphony No. 3 Eroica composed the following year.
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[@2cpl463]

00:08 Introduzione 02:15 A quattro 02:49 Tema 03:27 Var 1 04:01 Var 2 04:47 Var 3 05:22 Var 4 05:59 Var 5 07:02 Var 6 07:34 Var 7 ( including the end of Var 6 ) 08:13 Var 8 09:05 Var 9 09:41 Var 10 10:19 Var 11 11:12 Var 12 11:48 Var 13 12:28 Var 14 13:45 Var 15 ( including the end of Var 14 ) 17:27 Coda 18:43 Fuga

[@shin-i-chikozima]

What a versatile and unconventional composer Beethoven was🔥

[@yandrak6134]

I may need a lifetime to achieve the performance of only one of these. Is quite depressing, but I cannot but be happy that such a talent has emerged.

[@Cyclically]

I thought this playing sounded familiar, for 3 minutes I didn't realize it was Yunchan Lim. No wonder, since I've listened to this performance quite a few times now, and is probably my favorite interpretation of this piece.

[@jmister28]

Saw this live in aspen!

[@andreamassimocuomo6252]

Really bravo! Great dynamics!

[@charmsword]

A lot of people writing that they appreciate, yet cannot love such music. I, honestly, absolutely adore it. Even the monotony and all the ragged edges of harmony and rhythm - it sounds like something neo-classical from the XX c., something a very profound jazz or rock musician may improvise on Beethoven's theme.

[@TheLifeisgood72]

I think Yunchan’s more recent performances of the work smooths out those edges.

[@angelobonacci461]

Veramente bravo anche x il pezzo così difficile che in pochi fanno la variazione 13 è davvero terrificante 👍🏻👍🏻

[@barrymoore4470]

This set of variations was composed in the dawning years of the nineteenth century, yet even here one can discern the deliberate dissonance that marked Beethoven as such a visionary artist. He willfully employs trite and even grotesque effects to contrast and resolve with the more beautiful and elegant passages, with a cumulative effect that seems strikingly modern. He was writing not so much to please the listener's ears as to stretch them.

[@thewumblus]

Honestly the fugue reminds me of the fourth movement of the Hammerklavier sonata

[@user-eu3bt4ji4k]

Мне очень нравится это произведение, хоть я не часто его слушала, но это любовь с первогл слуха.

[@michaelillingworth6433]

From the quantity of likes and comments I'd have to guess that this isn't as well known as a lot of Beethoven's other music. It's certainly new to me, but well worth the time. ❤

[@barrymoore4470]

I gather it was the composer's earliest seminal variations work, and enshrines motifs that he carried over from slightly earlier dance and ballet music he had written, and would soon incorporate in his monumental third symphony (the 'Eroica').

[@FEDE-GARAY]

beautifulll!!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

As usual the subtitle of this work is wrong. The Eroica was written AFTER this set of variations. The theme Beethoven uses here, and later in the Eroica is from his Ballet "The Creatures of Prometheus". So these should be called "Prometheus"-Variations.

[@coleb.t.6905]

Should we then tell Big Classical to change his third symphony to The Prometheus Symphony

[@barrymoore4470]

Indeed, Beethoven himself first promoted the work as his 'Prometheus' Variations.

[@barrymoore4470]

@@coleb.t.6905Beethoven himself called his third symphony 'Eroica' ('Heroic'). In spite of his incorporation of the Prometheus theme in its score, he never referred to the symphony by that name.

[@nicomatf]

I don't understand the hate in this comment section wtf

[@PushkaryovVsevolod]

Гениально!

[@jakobler3474]

Variation no. 13 shows that even Yunchan Lim is not perfect :)

[@Chorizo727]

Because of that, I disliked this video and performance.

[@jakobler3474]

@@Chorizo727 It's a live performance and exceptionally good apart from that - so I don't really care.

[@nhotksk]

He said that sometimes he hits the note wrong on purpose. I think that was the case in this case, too. We can tell the level of his technique just by listening to his transcendental etude performance..

[@peterectasy2957]

I really would like to see Yunchan`s rehersal of this piece

[@fesh]

impressive, but as a musical work I can't say i enjoy it particularly much - something feels off about it, can't put my finger on it

[@musiclover148]

I can put my finger on it. It's harsh and clunky.

[@user-eu3bt4ji4k]

А мне, наоборот, очень нравится, здесь мне нравится полифония, голоса разговаривают, и это очень современное сочинение.

[@nicomatf]

What the hell are You talking about? What's wrong with this piece?

[@prototypeo1404]

People calling this ugly must look wider, nit only the greatest as a reference, but musical thought in general.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

I heard him play this live.

[@leoholder7839]

what beethoven

[@jmister28]

Me too, aspen?

[@Churchcantor]

Weird comment about myself; I like to burn candles and incense in my home, smells like a head shop. I keep my incense in the living room, on top of a study score of LVB's late string quartets. Yes, he was a pretty good composer (sarcasm obviously), but he has found a job in the afterlife as the guardian of my incense stash. Much less stressful. There are plenty of other composers I like just as much, but Beethoven wrote those late string quartets when he was dying. Everyone knows he gradually went deaf, but he also had digestive issues that plagued him from his teenage years; probably colitis. Imagine s*itting out bloody diarrhea into a chamber pot (which he seems to have kept underneath or beside the piano). It is this sort of thing that would make him my favorite composer, if pressed to answer. Well-read and liked to walk in the woods to boot, but on his walks, he had some manuscript paper in his pocket in case he got an idea...true dedication to his art, and Art it is.

[@Whatismusic123]

You're delusional.

[@prototypeo1404]

Stomach pain and problems are so distinct in their power to ruin the thought process of a person, their motivation and focus...

[@hongdenny2593]

에로키아의 쫀득함이 덜느껴져서 아쉽네요

[@tajimahal661]

...?

[@camilledelorme3853]

This out of tune Bflat is very interesting. It acts like a gravity center for the all piece.

[@bladst3r661]

I didn't even notice that

[@ff516]

@@bladst3r661 You must have a hearing problem. I didn't put a like because of that, it annoyes me a lot. It is only one string out of tune and it would take five seconds to fix it.

[@bladst3r661]

@@ff516 As a professional guitarist I am definitely glad that I don't have a perfect pitch. And ofc i dont have any hearing problem

[@petermerelis]

yeah that's pretty odd

[@martynasmatutis8284]

​@@ff516that was an impressively dickish comment - get off your high horse, no one cares.

[@undisclosedmusic4969]

I can appreciate this piece but I don't really enjoy it

[@nicomatf]

Why?

[@martian-sunset]

Not one of Beethoven's better outings. Not even the remarkable talents of Yuchan Lim can rescue it. The out of tune piano doesn't help.

[@nicomatf]

Oh you don't like this piece?

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Must say these variations are downright ugly. 3 B flats becomes childish the 12th time.

[@Numberonesorabjifan]

💀 it's literally in the theme bro

[@SILAS-cb9xl]

they aren’t my favourite variations either. but the point of variations is pretty much to use the same idea and then go further with it.

[@beethovensg]

You are a master. Beethoven is dumb (plebeian). Okay.

[@beethovensg]

Who cares about your sentiment?

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Yea, it may be a theme,but the great Beethoven was not immune to turning out crap now and then. It in no way diminishes his genius. Tough life and after 9 Symphonies, 32 Sonatas, of immortal caliber, Beethoven has no reason to prove his genius.

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

Worse the second time than first! Beethoven with constipation, minus inspiration.

[@nicomatf]

Hdhsja what? Why so many haters of this piece