This is the Debut CD of the young German Pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg. His concept Hommage a Beethoven concentrates on the years around Beethovens 7th Symphonie (Allegretto), on which also Robert Schumann wrote Free Variations WoO 31 (a discovery!). Blettenberg plays not only a Lizst arrangement but also his own on the Beethoven Lied To Hope (An die Hoffnung).