Beethoven - Complete Orchestral Works Vol.12
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Label: Simax
Cat No: PSC1285
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 23rd October 2015
Contents
Works
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, op.80 'Choral Fantasy'Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'
Artists
Boris Berezovsky (piano)DR Vocal Ensemble and Choir
Swedish Chamber Orchestra Orebro
Conductor
Thomas DausgaardWorks
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra in C minor, op.80 'Choral Fantasy'Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'
Artists
Boris Berezovsky (piano)DR Vocal Ensemble and Choir
Swedish Chamber Orchestra Orebro
Conductor
Thomas DausgaardAbout
The twelfth and final volume of Beethoven’s Complete Orchestral Works in Simax’s edition - a pairing of the ‘Emperor’ Concerto and the Choral Fantasy - by Thomas Dausgaard, Boris Berezovsky and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra finds all the musicians on top form.
Though close to each other in date, the two works on this disc, which are the last in which Beethoven wrote for piano and orchestra together, are in other respects quite dissimilar. The Fifth Piano Concerto, known (almost exclusively within the English-speaking world, incidentally) by the nickname of the ‘Emperor’, was Beethoven’s last completed work in the genre. It is a standard piano concerto, or so it seems to listeners today, because it was uniquely influential in defining the form for the next 100 years. To its first audiences it must have seemed highly individual and even idiosyncratic.
The Choral Fantasy, on the other hand, appears an unorthodox, even unique conception, much freer in form, as befits the title 'fantasy' which Beethoven chose for it. Yet both are entirely characteristic of the composer in their deployment of a structure that served the purposes of the content of the work itself to its greatest advantage.
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