Beethoven: Piano Concertos

Classic accounts of these incomparable works, in which the soloist and orchestra are partners, responding raptly to one another. Captured in ideal sonic perspective, this is as near to a definitive set as you could hope to hear. Michael Tanner

Reviewed September 2007

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5

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:22 pm

COMPOSERS: Beethoven
LABELS: Sony
WORKS: Piano Concertos
PERFORMER: Murray Perahia (piano); Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
CATALOGUE NO: 88697102902 (Reissue 1983-86)

Classic accounts of these incomparable works, in which the soloist and orchestra are partners, responding raptly to one another. Captured in ideal sonic perspective, this is as near to a definitive set as you could hope to hear. Michael Tanner

Reviewed September 2007

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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