Much like Mozart before him, Beethoven used a piano concerto to introduce himself to the important Viennese public. It was a tool not so much to show off his compositional prowess, but his abundant skills at the keyboard. For Beethoven, it was his B flat major Concerto (composed first but known today as Concerto No. 2) that catapulted his fame in Vienna. Written with the same elegance and refinement as Mozart and Haydn, there is still an occasional hint at an underlying brooding that is unmistakably Beethoven. Performing ...
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Much like Mozart before him, Beethoven used a piano concerto to introduce himself to the important Viennese public. It was a tool not so much to show off his compositional prowess, but his abundant skills at the keyboard. For Beethoven, it was his B flat major Concerto (composed first but known today as Concerto No. 2) that catapulted his fame in Vienna. Written with the same elegance and refinement as Mozart and Haydn, there is still an occasional hint at an underlying brooding that is unmistakably Beethoven. Performing the B flat and C major (written three years later) concertos is pianist Mari Kodama and her husband, Kent Nagano, conducting the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Leading up to this recording, Kodama devoted a significant amount of her time in both recording studio and recital hall to Beethoven, including work on a complete set of the sonatas for Pentatone. Her playing, especially of these early concertos, leans slightly toward the weighty, overly Romantic, but this is found more...
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