Composers: Beethoven
Compositions: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 5
Performers: Kristian Bezuidenhout fp, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado cond
Catalogue Number: Harmonia Mundi HMM902411
With everything that’s going on in world right now, it’s good to be reminded of humankind’s indomitable spirit in this 250th anniversary year of Beethoven’s birth. It’s also good to be reminded that an artist’s legacy, like fate itself, is never truly settled. So it is with Beethoven’s five piano concertos, which simultaneously look back to Mozart, forward to Brahms, up to heaven, down to hell.
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