Signor abate beethoven biography

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Canons and Musical Jokes
Claudia Schlemmer (soprano); Stefan Tauber, Martin Weiser (tenors); Franz Schneckenleitner (bass)
Luka Kusztrich, Benjamin Lichtenegger, Lara Kusztrich, Dominik Hellsberg (violins); Wolfgang Däuble (cello)
Ensemble Tamanial
Cantus Novus Wien/Thomas Holmes (piano)
rec.

2018/19, 4tune audio productions, Vienna
NAXOS 8.574176 [54:53]

As one might expect, Naxos have made numerous welcome and enterprising contributions to the celebration of Beethoven’s 250^th birthday: one thinks, for example, of Leif Segerstam’s discs of little-known vocal and incidental music (review, review, also his recordings of König Stephan (8.574042) and imperial cantatas (8.574077)).

Meanwhile the artists featured most prominently on the present recording have themselves made what amounts to a companion CD of rare secular vocal music, often