Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 Elizabeth Sombart, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Pierre Vallet

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37:
• 1 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio 18:53
• 2 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: II. Largo 11:13
• 3 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: III. Rondo (Allegro) 10:42
• Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58:
• 4 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato 20:24
• 5 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto 05:25
• 6 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: III. Rondo (Vivace) 11:17
• Total Runtime 01:17:54

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Beethoven’s personal life was famously wild and tortured, from his wretched childhood and early musical education at the hands of an alcoholic and abusive father to his hopeless, unrequited romantic passions. Yet from personal chaos emerged perhaps the greatest music ever composed. Written for the instrument with which he is inextricably linked, the five piano concertos chart the dramatic period of Beethoven’s career from young composer-performer to the early stages of his painful descent into profound deafness, and the cruel end of his own performing career. Each is a sublime masterpiece, distilling the spirit and towering genius of this most prodigious composer.

Elizabeth Sombart, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Vallet, conductor

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