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Beethoven composed works in all the main genres of classical music, including symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas and opera. His compositions range from solo works to those requiring a large orchestra and chorus.
Pages in category "Piano concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven". The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
- Beethoven’s Five (or So) Piano Concertos
- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1
- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2
- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3
- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
- Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5
- Recommended Recording
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Beethoven’s five piano concertos are all in three movements. Here their similarities end. The wonderful thing about Beethoven – OK, one of many wonderful things – is that he never repeats himself. The earliest of Beethoven’s piano concertos that we generally hear, No. 2, was first drafted in the late 1780s and the last completed in 1809-10, by whic...
The C major concerto, the official No. 1, was a case in point. Beethoven premiered it in 1795 in his first public concert in Vienna, having written the finale only two days earlier. His friend Franz Wegeler recalled him racing against the clock to finish it, handing over the sheets of manuscript page by fresh page to four copyists waiting outside. ...
Of No. 2 in B flat major, Beethoven wrote self-deprecatingly to his publisher: “This concerto I only value at 10 ducats… I do not give it out as one of my best.” Yet if he hadn’t written anymore, we would still love him for this work. Genial, warm, sometimes ridiculously funny – try those off-beat loping rhythms in the finale – the B flat piano con...
If there’s a key in Beethoven associated with high drama, it is C minor: he used it for the Symphony No. 5, the ‘Pathétique’ Sonata, much later his last piano sonata, Op. 111, and the Piano Concerto No. 3. This was written as the 19th century was taking wing; its first performance, given by the composer himself, was on 5 April 1803. Only six months...
In the Piano Concerto No. 4in G major, Beethoven inhabits new worlds that are both brave and breathtaking. It is brave, for a start, to begin a concerto with the soloist playing alone, very quietly. The piano’s initial phrase – a soft G major chord that pulses, then expands towards a questioning cadence – poses a challenge to the orchestra, which r...
The last concerto, subtitled the ‘Emperor’, is in Beethoven’s old favorite key of E flat major, and it lives up to its nickname in terms of grandeur, poise, and scale of conception. This is the only one of Beethoven’s piano concertos that the composer did not perform himself: by the time of its premiere in January 1811, his hearing loss was making ...
Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle’s landmark recording of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra was a major highlight of the celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. Their outstanding performances, streamed on DG Stage from LSO St Luke’s and recorded live by Deutsche Grammophon in Decem...
Learn about Beethoven's five piano concertos, from his youthful C major to his heroic C minor, and how he revolutionized the genre. Listen to excerpts and watch videos of Krystian Zimerman and Sir Simon Rattle's recording.
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Learn about the five piano concertos Beethoven wrote between 1795 and 1809, their history, style and challenges. Find out the top five recordings of this masterpiece of the piano concerto repertoire.
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos. Album • Krystian Zimerman, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle • 2021. 15 songs • 2 hours, 52 minutes. Play. Save to library. 1. Beethoven: Piano...
Mar 11, 2013 · Learn about the five completed Piano Concertos by Beethoven, spanning his early and middle periods, and how his deafness influenced his compositional style. Discover the unique features, challenges and highlights of each concerto, from the first with its orchestral introduction to the fifth with its virtuosic finale.
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos. Album • Mitsuko Uchida, Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Kurt Sanderling • 2005. 16 songs • 3 hours, 12 minutes. Play....
