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Beethoven: Five Piano Concertos
 
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Beethoven: Five Piano Concertos [Box set]
~ Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Largo
3. 3. Rondo (Allegro scherzando)
4. 1. Allegro con brio
5. 2. Adagio
6. 3. Rondo (Molto allegro)
Disc: 2
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Largo
3. 3. Rondo (Allegro)
4. 1. Allegro moderato
5. 2. Andante con moto
6. 3. Rondo. Vivace
Disc: 3
1. 1. Allegro
2. 2. Adagio un poco mosso
3. 3. Rondo (Allegro)

On this CD:
  1. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    with Maurizio Pollini
    Conducted by Claudio Abbado

  2. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    with Maurizio Pollini
    Conducted by Claudio Abbado

  3. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C minor
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    with Maurizio Pollini
    Conducted by Claudio Abbado

  4. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    with Maurizio Pollini
    Conducted by Claudio Abbado

  5. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5, 'Emperor' in E flat
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
    with Maurizio Pollini
    Conducted by Claudio Abbado


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Amazon.co.uk Review
Pollini's 1970's cycle established his Beethoven credentials with the public at large. These live 90s remakes--audience generally well-behaved--share the same precise, but never clinical objectivity and sovereign technique. The interpretations aren't radically different either. No. 4 still comes off best, Pollini tempering his aloofness with the humanity and inwardness the music demands. No. 3 is also very fine: pianist and conductor in a meeting of minds for what, in its mingling of pathos and humour, is the most "contemporary" of the five. No. 1 still inspires Pollini to be reckless with the music's high- spirits and classical framework; his impatience is that much more apparent in the rather charmless account of No. 2. No. 5, the Emperor, is nowadays the most difficult to put across: its high-flown heroism just doesn't square with today's cynical mindset. Pollini and Abbado don't do anything wrong, but the music fails to lift the spirits or provoke the mind. A mixed collection then, but hear Nos. 3 and 4 for Pollini's Beethoven at its best. --Richard Whitehouse

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