Beethoven - Piano Concerto no.4, Coriolan & Creatures of Prometheus Overtures | Harmonia Mundi HMM902413

Beethoven - Piano Concerto no.4, Coriolan & Creatures of Prometheus Overtures

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Label: Harmonia Mundi

Cat No: HMM902413

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 21st August 2020

Contents

Artists

Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester

Conductor

Pablo Heras-Casado

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Coriolan Overture, op.62
Piano Concerto no.4 in G major, op.58
The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43
» Overture

Artists

Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester

Conductor

Pablo Heras-Casado

About

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.

Reviews

Bezuidenhout may have surpassed the most compelling of his solo Mozart set, his Mendelssohn and Mozart concertos with the Freiburgers, his electric Beethoven sonatas with Mullova and even the resplendent Emperor Concerto of this series. Repeated listening has convinced me this is one of the finest, most deeply perceptive and thrilling performances of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto on record. But make no mistake, Bezuidenhout’s triumph could only be achieved by the hand-in-glove support and interplay provided by Heras-Casado and the Freiburgers.  Patrick Rucker
Gramophone October 2020
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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