This is pianist Boris Giltburg's second Beethoven concerto release with Vasily Petrenko, leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Apparently, a complete cycle is planned, and this is good; the still youthful Giltburg has interesting things to say in these familiar works. One intriguing feature is that both this release and its predecessor combine a repertory concerto with a lesser-known item. Perhaps a future volume will include the incomplete and very rarely played Piano Concerto No. 6. Here, the obscurity is the so ...
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This is pianist Boris Giltburg's second Beethoven concerto release with Vasily Petrenko, leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Apparently, a complete cycle is planned, and this is good; the still youthful Giltburg has interesting things to say in these familiar works. One intriguing feature is that both this release and its predecessor combine a repertory concerto with a lesser-known item. Perhaps a future volume will include the incomplete and very rarely played Piano Concerto No. 6. Here, the obscurity is the so-called Piano Concerto No. 0 in E flat major, WoO 4, of 1784, for which the orchestral parts have been lost. Giltburg plays a piano-only version made by Beethoven, which is intriguing (the piano part, especially in the slow movement, is almost garishly ornamented) but probably inferior to the existing straightforward completion. The main attraction is the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ("Emperor"), and here Giltburg is very strong. The big themes have lots of detail that...
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