In their own way Beethoven’s five piano concertos relate a part of their composer’s life. In the previous volume of this complete recording, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester explored the beginning (Concerto no.2, a springboard to Viennese fame) and the end (the ‘Emperor’) of the story; they now turn to the most personal of all the Beethoven concertos, the Fourth, which, at a time when the spectre of total deafness threatened his career, shattered the conventions of the genre – as did such orchestral works as Coriolan and the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN [1770-1827]
· Coriolan
Overture op. 62 in C minor / Ut mineur / c-Moll
Allegro con brio (7'29)
Piano Concerto no. 4 op. 58
G major / Sol majeur / G-Dur
· I. Allegro moderato (18'35)
· II. Andante con moto (4'55)
· III. Rondo. Vivace (9'44)
· Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus op. 43
Les Créatures de Prométhée / The Men of Prometheus
Overture. Adagio - Allegro molto con brio (4'53)
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