Tripelkonzert/Rondo B-Dur - 1772

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Amazon.com Here's an inspired appendage to the Aimard-Harnoncourt set of the Beethoven Piano Concertos. When new, the Triple Concerto, combining three solo instruments with orchestra, was considered a bold new type of concerto. That's how it's played here. The solo trio blends nicely with the orchestra, giving the work a chamber music dimension. Once past the slow introduction, Harnoncourt conducts a vigorous, almost rhapsodic performance, with great forward momentum. But the honors go to the outstanding soloists. Aimard etches the piano line with exceptional clarity, Hagen, the cellist of the Hagen Quartet, plays with gorgeous tone, while violinist Zehetmair, who also leads a quartet bearing his name, almost steals the show through his agile playing and phrasing that cuts to the heart of the music. I know of no better performance of this work. The Choral Fantasy too comes off as more than a weird combination of a solo piano fantasia and a choral sketch for the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. And pianist and orchestra play the daylights out of the quirky Rondo in B-flat major. --Dan Davis Product description Pierre-Laurent Aimards remarkable career continues to go from strength to strength. The French pianist is in great demand in all the worlds major concert halls, refusing to be pigeonholed as he explores a broad range of music from different ages and sources. Aimards recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, released in 2003, received the highest critical accolades worldwide: revelatory insightful (The Times); technically brilliant and intellectually appealing (The Independent); The freshness of this set is remarkable. You do not have to listen far to be swept up by its spirit of renewal and discovery, and in Pierre-Laurent Aimard as soloist, Nikolaus Harnoncourt has made an inspired choice Aimard is as intrepid an explorer here as Harnoncourt intensely enjoyable vital, focused performances (Gramophone). Now the same protagonists complete the recorded survey of Beethovens works for piano and orchestra with: The Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano with the whole Orchestra (Beethovens title) was written in 1804 for the composers young piano pupil Archduke Rudolf and two string players in the Archdukes entourage. It was premiered in 1808. In December 1808, at Beethovens famous benefit concert at the Theater an der Wien, the public heard the first performances of his fifth and sixth symphonies, three movements from the C Major Mass, the concert aria Ah, perfido! and the premiere of the Piano Concerto No. 4 with the composer playing the solo part. At the last moment, Beethoven decided to compose a brilliant and stirring finale to the evening that would draw together chorus, orchestra and himself as soloist. The result was the Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, often referred to as the Choral Fantasy. The Rondo in B-flat is believed to have been the original finale to Beethovens Piano Concerto No. 2, which was published with a completely new final movement
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