Classic FM

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor: Full Works Concert Highlight of the Week

Jane Jones explores the drama that reveals the piano as the poet. If your picture of Beethoven is, like mine, of a dramatic, dark personality whose tragic life events shaped him and his music, then ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Pires)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Maria João Pires, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 Swedish ...
BBC

Live from Sydney: Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 3 and 4

Watch Emmanuel Ax and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concertos 3 and 4 at the Sydney Opera House. Beethoven composed his 3rd and 4th Piano Concertos between 1800 and 1806 – a ...
The Guardian

Fazil Say: Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3; Sonatas No 32 Op 111 etc review – 'Essential listening'

Fazil Say and Gianandrea Noseda are hard-hitting radicals when it comes to Beethoven and their recording of the Third Piano Concerto is one of most startling performances on disc. Mozart's influence ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Program: ASO: Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3

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The Guardian

Classical review: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3: Piano Concerto in D Major, Mustonen/Tapiola Sinfonietta

The Finnish pianist-composer-conductor Olli Mustonen is as noted for his eccentricity as for his radicalism. The quirk when it comes to his Beethoven concerto cycle - this is the second instalment - ...
The Boston Globe

Martin Helmchen offers a high-voltage performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3

When the solo piano makes its first entrance in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, it does so on a figure familiar to every childhood piano-lesson veteran: an ascending C minor scale in both hands, one ...
Los Angeles Times

How the L.A. Phil turned Beethoven’s piano concerto marathon into a relay

Stormy, emotionally charged harmonic shifts. Flowing classical lyricism interrupted by lightning bolt chords. Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Beethoven's First Piano Concerto and more

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. An upstart composer from a small town, ready to make his mark on the world... Beethoven moved ...
Classic FM

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3/Mozart: Piano Concerto No.24 - Yevgeny Sudbin/Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä

Electrifying performances from a stellar pianist. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 3 February 2014. Still in his early 30s, Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed as potentially one of the greatest pianists ...
Gramophone

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Elisabeth Leonskaja)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piano Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Tugan Sokhiev, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piano Toulouse ...