The Five Piano Concertos

Album by Ludwig van Beethoven & Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa & Rudolf Serkin

The Five Piano Concertos are a set of five piano concertos composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1795 and 1809. They blend Classical-era structural clarity with emerging Romantic expressiveness, featuring virtuosic piano writing, expanded orchestral textures and prominent solo-orchestra dialogue, and they illustrate Beethoven's transition from his early to middle compositional periods while advancing the concerto genre.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Concerto no. 1 in C major, op. 15: I. Allegro con brio
    18:19
  2. 2.
    Concerto no. 1 in C major, op. 15: II. Largo
    11:57
  3. 3.
    Concerto no. 1 in C major, op. 15: III. Rondo. Allegro scherzando
    10:20
  4. 4.
    Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major, op. 19: I. Allegro con brio
    14:42
  5. 5.
    Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major, op. 19: II. Adagio
    9:24
  6. 6.
    Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major, op. 19: III. Rondo. Molto allegro
    6:46

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 73: I. Allegro con brio
    16:59
  2. 3.
    Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 73: II. Largo
    9:34
  3. 4.
    Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 73: III. Rondo: Allegro
    10:15
  4. 5.
    Concerto no. 4 in G, op. 58: I. Allegro moderato
    19:52
  5. 6.
    Concerto no. 4 in G, op. 58: II. Andante con moto
    5:23
  6. 7.
    Concerto no. 4 in G, op. 58: III. Rondo: Vivace
    10:13

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Concerto no. 5 in E-flat, op. 73 "Emperor": I. Allegro
    21:20
  2. 4.
    Concerto no. 5 in E-flat, op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco
    8:50
  3. 5.
    Concerto no. 5 in E-flat, op. 73 "Emperor": III. Rondo: Allegro
    10:55

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