Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Hanna Shybayeva, Bas Vliegenthart, Animato Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8551452
Release: 2021
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
01. I. Allegro con brio
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Rondo. Molto allegro
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio un poco mosso
06. III. Rondo. Allegro
During the Biedermeier period, the piano gained huge popularity as a domestic instrument, and piano concertos were increasingly arranged for chamber music ensembles. Ignaz Lachner’s superb arrangements of Mozart’s piano concertos are well known, but his brother Vinzenz Lachner’s arrangements of Beethoven’s concertos are a rarity, though equally as valuable. This volume completes the cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos in Vinzenz Lachner’s transcriptions for piano and string quintet (Concerto no.1 is on 8551431; Concertos nos. 3 and 4 are on 8551400).