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1 Beethoven: 33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli - Tema. Vivace  
2 Var. 1. Alla marcia maestoso  
3 Var. 2. Poco allegro  
4 Var. 3. L'istesso tempo  
5 Var. 4. Un poco piu vivace  
6 Var. 5. Allegro vivace  
7 Var. 6. Allegro ma non troppo e serioso  
8 Var. 7. Un poco piu allegro  
9 Var. 8. Poco vivace  
10 Var. 9. Allegro pesante e risoluto  
11 Var. 10. Presto  
12 Var. 11. Allegretto  
13 Var. 12. Un poco piu moto  
14 Var. 13. Vivace  
15 Var. 14. Grave e maestoso  
16 Var. 15. Presto scherzando  
17 Var. 16. Allegro  
18 Var. 17. Allegro  
19 Var. 18. Poco moderato  
20 Var. 19. Presto  
21 Var. 20. Andante  
22 Var. 21. Allegro con brio. Meno allegro  
23 Var. 22. Allegro molto, alla Notte e giorno faticar? di Mozart  
24 Var. 23. Allegro assai  
25 Var. 24. Fughetta. Andante  
26 Var. 25. Allegro  
27 Var. 26. Piacevole  
28 Var. 27. Vivace  
29 Var. 28. Allegro  
30 Var. 29. Adagio ma non troppo  
31 Var. 30. Andante, sempre cantabile  
32 Var. 31. Largo, molto espressivo  
33 Var. 32. Fugue. Allegro  
34 Var. 33. Tempo di Minuet moderato  
35 Auerbach: Diabellical Waltz  
36 Dean: Variation for Rudi  
37 Hosokawa: Verlust  
38 Jost: Rock it Rudi  
39 Lubman: Variation for R.B.  
40 Manoury: Zwei Jahrhunderte sp?ter  
41 Richter: Diabelli  
42 Shchedrin: Variation on a Theme of Diabelli  
43 Staud: A propos de?Diabelli  
44 Tan Dun: Blue Orchid  
45 Widmann: Diabelli-Variation  
46 Hummel: Var. 16 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz  
47 Kalkbrenner: Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz  
48 Kreutzer: Var. 21 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz  
49 Liszt: Var. 24 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz  
50 Moscheles: Var. 26 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz  
51 F.X.W. Mozart: Var. 28 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz  
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Buchbinder, who recorded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations early in his career, has invited 12 contemporary composers to write their own variations on Diabelli's theme – which he will then record for DG and perform live on tour in 2020. His chosen contributors are: Krzysztof Penderecki, Rodion Shchedrin, Brett Dean, Max Richter, Jörg Widmann, Toshio Hosokawa, Lera Auerbach, Brad Lubman, Philippe Manoury, Johannes Maria Staud and Tan Dun.

  • Rudolf Buchbinder's Brahms * Reger Song Transcriptions is a highly engaging album / THE REHEARSAL STUDIO
    Posted At: July 10, 2024 12:00 AM
    Rudolf Buchbinder is one of the legendary performers of our time. The authority of a career spanning more than 60 years is uniquely combined with esprit and spontaneity in his piano playing. Tradition and innovation, faithfulness and freedom, authenticity and open-mindedness merge in his reading of the great piano literature.His interpretations of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven in particular are regarded...
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  • NY Phil led by Jaap van Zweden with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder, captivates David Geffen Hall audience / Splash Magazine
    Posted At: January 10, 2024 12:00 AM
    Splash Magazine's Charles E. Gerber writes….It was the Sunday, Jan. 7th, matinee where my concert companion and I were privileged to be seated midway in the now historically significant renovated Geffen Hall to attend the 4th and final performance of this series of concerts since last Thursday, of New York Philharmonic’s Music Director, JAAP van ZWEDEN, and the world-renowned Beethoven specialist, RUDOLF BU...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder - Soiree de Vienne is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: December 8, 2022 12:00 AM
    Rudolf Buchbinder – Soirée de Vienne sounds echoes of the celebrated Austrian pianist’s home city in the form of music closely associated with it. The recording, released by Deutsche Grammophon on 25 November, captures both the lost world of salon soirées and Vienna’s legendary attitude to life, with its heady blend of intensity and insouciance, earthiness and beauty.“We all have impossible dreams,” says Bu...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder set for Beethoven program at Seoul Arts Center' & 'Daejeon Arts Center' / The Korea Times
    Posted At: October 19, 2021 12:00 AM

    The Korea Times - Park Ji-won writes.....Known as one of the best Beethoven interpreters in the world, Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder has been placing Beethoven at the "center" of his life. He has performed Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas more than 50 times over the last 60 years of his career. He also owns a wide range of original, first-edition scores and music-related documents which includ...
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  • Deutsche Grammophon's 'World Piano Day' livestream was watched by over 4 million / udiscovermusic.
    Posted At: March 30, 2020 12:00 AM

    Deutsche Grammophon marked World Piano Day on Saturday 28 March with a global livestream virtual festival featuring ten of their legendary pianists. Over 4 million people in over 100 countries have so far enjoyed the virtual festival, featuring three and a half hours of piano music, via YouTube, Facebook and Medici.tv. The emotionally charged programme was performed by Maria João Pires, V&iacu...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder at Xinghai Concert Hall makes 'that's 9 best things to do this week in Guangzhou'
    Posted At: May 13, 2019 12:00 AM

    One of the world's top classical pianist today, Rudolf Buchbinder has enjoyed an international repute throughout his career, which spans five decades. The golden hall of Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York and The Berliner Philharmonie have all hosted Buchbinder's top-of-the-line performances, where the Austrian musician collaborated with world-renowned orchestras. His interpretation of Beet...
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  • 'Rudolf Buchbinder & Beethoven' set for Seoul Arts Center / The Korea Herald
    Posted At: January 24, 2019 12:00 AM

    "Beethoven specialist" Rudolf Buchbinder will share his take on Beethoven with the Korean audience through a piano recital. Titled "Rudolf Buchbinder & Beethoven," the piano performance is slated to take place at the Seoul Arts Center on May 12. Before the performance, Buchbinder will tour cities in Korea, performing in Daegu, Gwangju and eastern Seoul. The recital in May marks the pianist's first pe...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder on 'Performance Today'
    Posted At: October 31, 2017 12:00 AM

    Rudolf Buchbinder grew up in a house with a piano, despite the fact that no one in his family played music. But that piano became a source of inspiration for Buchbinder, who now has a tremendous career as a pianist. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear him play music by Beethoven. Here's a rundown of the show, which also features - Martha Argerich. Hour 1 Joseph Haydn: Pian...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder at ease in marathon at Heinz Hall / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Posted At: April 29, 2017 12:00 AM

    By any mea­sure, it's an im­pres­sive feat for one pi­a­nist to play three con­certi in a sin­gle night. De­cid­ing to do that for your birth­day, how­ever, sounds like a spe­cial form of self-tor­ture. That is, un­less you're Ru­dolf Buch­binder. The Aus­trian pi­a­nist turned 70 in Decem­ber, and as part of his cel­e&sh...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder delivers precise & powerful Mozart concerto with S.F. Symphony / San Francisco Classical Voice
    Posted At: November 2, 2016 12:00 AM

    Wolfgang A. Mozart was a precocious brat. He earned admiration throughout Europe, as he and his sister, Maria Anna (Nannerl), were paraded around Europe by their father Leopold. But none was more impressed than Pope Clement XIV when young Wolfgang, then 14 years old, heard the closely guarded Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri, in the Sistine Chapel, then wrote it down from memory. It had been sung e...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder in season's first Sunday piano recital / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: October 25, 2016 12:00 AM

    Rudolf Buchbinder began the season of Sunday afternoon piano recitals at Orchestra Hall with an old-fashioned program played with contemporary restraint. Seven works by J. S. Bach, Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven had clarity, precision, fluency and a virtually complete absence of interpretative excess. Had we encountered the performances on records, they would have been in the category of trustwo...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder's 70th birthday tour lands in San Francisco / The Mercury News
    Posted At: October 24, 2016 12:00 AM

    Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony this week in a program that includes Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 with Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist, plus "Miserere" by Gregorio Allegri, and Brahms' glorious Symphony No. 2.  As a prelude to the Mozart, the men of the Symphony Chorus and the Pacific Boychoir perform the "Miserere," which Mozart heard at the Vatican. This piece, a setting o...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder looks back at 65 years of pianism / SFGATE Q&A
    Posted At: October 20, 2016 12:00 AM

    For many decades, the Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder has been regaling the international musical world with a cultured, masterful approach to the keyboard repertoire. His focus has been on the Viennese classical masters, particularly Beethoven, but his artistry ranges over a wide swath of music history, from the Baroque to the contemporary period. Yet, Buchbinder's local appearances have been few...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder plays Beethoven on Performance Today
    Posted At: August 16, 2016 12:00 AM

    Rudolf Buchbinder performs as part of the 20th Anniversary celebration of the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, Russia. Courtesy of the artist Rudolf Buchbinder grew up in a house with a piano, despite the fact that no one in his family played music. But that piano became a source of inspiration for Buchbinder, who has grown up to have a tremendous career as a pianist. On Tuesday's Performance ...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder Q&A with Shanghai Daily
    Posted At: April 29, 2016 12:00 AM

    SOME pianists gain fame at a young age. Rudolf Buchbinder did the opposite. The now 70-year-old took his time to perfect his piano skills and is now a poster child of those great pianists who were recognized late in their careers. Recruited by the Vienna Academy of Music at age 5, Buchbinder become the academy's youngest student in the history. He played his first open concert at 9 and was awarded a spec...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder set to play Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas in Edinburgh / theguardian
    Posted At: August 7, 2015 12:00 AM

    "Beethoven was the most romantic of composers," says Rudolf Buchbinder, thrusting a score at me to demonstrate exactly how and why. "Just look: nobody else wrote ‘a tempo' after ‘espressivo'. When Beethoven wrote ‘espressivo' – which he did a lot – he meant something deeply emotional, something extreme, something that would stop time as we know it." This might sound like the...
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  • Rudolf Buchbinder Interviews with Classical Radio
    Posted At: February 13, 2013 12:00 AM

    Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, dubbed The ‘Viennese Oracle,' has released his newest Sony Classical album, a recording of Mozart's Piano Concertos No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 and No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 with conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus Vienna. The recording is a live account of Buchbinder's concerts with Concentus Musicus at the Vienna Musikverein in June ...
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