Album guide
Peace For Beethoven - A Jazz of Beethoven Companion
- Composer
- Beethoven
- Released
- 2013
- Label
- Lenny Marcus Music
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Lenny Marcus piano with bass and drums
Marcus’s route to Beethoven passed through New Orleans, where he studied with Ellis Marsalis while playing in the French Quarter.
Peace for Beethoven begins with one of the composer’s tiny Ecossaises, expanding a miniature dance into a full trio performance before moving on to the sonatas and Fifth Symphony.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Ecossaise SevenEcossaise in E-flat major, WoO 86
- Beethoven’s FifteenthPiano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 “Pastorale”: I. Allegro
- Fur EliseBagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 “Für Elise”
- Two Hundred StarsOriginal composition by Lenny Marcus
- Waldstein OnePiano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”: I. Allegro con brio
- Second PathPiano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”: II. Adagio cantabile
- Beethoven’s FifthSymphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
- Greensleeves BagatelleNon-classical source
- Peace For BeethovenOriginal composition by Lenny Marcus
- Moonlight SonataPiano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight”: I. Adagio sostenuto
- You Are My SunshineNon-classical source
- Never A StrangerOriginal composition by Lenny Marcus
- Ludwig’s DilemmaOriginal composition by Lenny Marcus
- IoNon-classical source