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		BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Sudbin, Minnesota Orchestra, Vanska)			1:09:39

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

I. Allegro moderato

17:30

3.99

II. Andante con moto

5:05

1.99

III. Rondo: Vivace

9:25

1.99

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, "Emperor"

I. Allegro

20:24

album only

II. Adagio un poco mosso

7:34

1.99

III. Rondo: Allegro

9:41

1.99

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By nicholasb
30-Apr-2011

Inside Beethoven

I had already admired Vanska's Beethoven symphony cycle with the Minnesota Orchestra and so was looking forward to this issue. This is the first time I have heard Yevgheny Sudbin play although I had heard of him... and what a wonderful surprise! In both concertos he seems right inside the music finding delicate nuances of personal (but not gratuitous) interpretation. There have been several other interesting Beethoven Concerto cycles recently-- Paul Lewis, Ronald Brautigam and Olli Mustonen to name but three. But Sudbin and Vanska get off to a flying start with this issue... I can't wait for the others! This cycle looks like being set to become one of my favourites. Strongly recommended!
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By Laurence Vittes
Audiophile Audition
26-Jul-2012

These enormously imaginative, hugely entertaining performances score on so many levels, including the purely orchestral, that there will be many music lovers wishing they could take up residence in the Twin Cities just in order to hear Vanska and the Minnesota as often as possible.

These are very much collaborative performances, with everything between the musicians and the soloist in sync, and the narrative sense and flow very much in the manner of dialogue…The orchestra contributes not only in its bold intonation, sleek phrasing and timbre, but in the smallest details, the way the woodwinds not only play with rare delicacy but also impart color to the orchestral sound as a whole.

The playing of Beethoven’s longer cadenza in the first

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By David Hurwitz
ClassicsToday.com
10-Jan-2011

Expectations ran high in anticipation of this release, and they have not been disappointed. BIS just completed a partially successful Beethoven piano concerto series in which an often inspired Ronald Brautigam was shackled to an expressively challenged and period-pedantic Andrew Parrott. Here, both conductor and soloist are consistently operating on the same exciting wavelength. Osmo Vänskä’s credentials as a Beethoven conductor remain impressive. He understands the importance of accents, of sforzandos that enliven but don’t disrupt the melodic line. He never fails to balance Beethoven’s all-important bass lines clearly (opening tutti of the Fourth concerto), or to give sufficient prominence to those rapid accompaniments in repeated notes that energize the music’s texture (first movement of the “Emperor”). The orchestra plays with real intensity as well as expressiveness, offering the perfect collaboration for Yevgeny Sudbin’s contributions.

These are no less memorable. It’s sometimes said that you can tell how well the Fourth concerto will go from the pianist’s handling of the opening phrase, and there’s some truth to this observation. Sudbin plays it with simple dignity, refuses to make a big ritard at the end, and strictly observes Beethoven’s eighth-note value on the last note. The result is that the phrase sounds incomplete (as it should), arousing expectation and carrying the music through the pause to the hesitant entry of the violins in a different key. He understands that some of Beethoven’s biggest surprises arrive softly. In short, there is a true give-and-take between soloist and orchestra throughout these performances that makes them especially engaging.

The slow movement is wonderful: Vänskä finds a tempo—a touch slower than usual—that allows him to observe the “sempre staccato” indication and provide the necessary rhetorical weight to the strings’ emphatic proclamations, while Sudbin’s answers represent the soul of inward poetry. The finale, by contrast, is dazzling and uninhibited, with trumpets and drums cutting through the texture, and Sudbin’s fast passage-work is joyous but never tonally forced or hard.

Indeed, it may sound odd to say so, but one of the joys of Sudbin’s playing is his handling of simple scales and runs. Mozart once remarked how he delighted in making them “go like oil”, with perfect smoothness, and that’s just how Sudbin handles them. There are a lot of scales in these pieces, in the “Emperor” particularly. In its first movement, each major entrance (and exit) of the piano features a simple scale, and anyone who can make these as memorable and beautiful as Sudbin does is a major talent indeed. He has a particular way, in the Adagio for example, of rendering the melodic line expressive through control of touch and dynamics without distorting the rhythm, and this makes the music touching without excess se
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