Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.574152 | Recorded: 2019, 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 69:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.574152 | Recorded: 2019, 2022
For 19th-century audiences Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions with brilliance and triumphant grandeur. Piano Concerto No. 4 is the most introspective and poetic of the concertos. The simplicity of its opening piano statement gives way to an unprecedented dialogue in the central movement between a heartfelt piano and an austere unison string orchestra, before the infectious energy of the dramatic finale.