Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout
Orchestra: Freiburger Barockorchester
Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Release: 2020
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio un poco mosso
03. III. Rondo. Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
04. I. Allegro con brio
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Rondo. Molto allegro
Beethoven’s five piano concertos relate, in a sense, part of the composers life: some twenty years during which a young musician from Bonn made several revised versions of the first concerto he wrote (a springboard to Viennese success that ended up being called no.2), before becoming the familiar Emperor of music embodied by the brilliant inspiration of no.5. Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, it is with these two extremes that Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester have chosen to start an exciting period-instrument trilogy of the concertos that bids fair to be a landmark!