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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta)

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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta)

Composer(s):Beethoven, Ludwig van
Artist(s) Mustonen, Olli, Conductor • Tapiola SinfoniettaMustonen, Olli, piano
Period(s) Classical (1750-1830)
Genre Classical Music
Category Concertos
Catalogue ODE1146-5
Label Ondine
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
CD
USD 16.99
 

 
MP3
USD 9.99
 

 

   




Review By Jens F. Laurson,WETA 90.9 FM Blog,December 2010

How much does the recurrent revelation of greatness among Beethoven’s Piano Concertos owe to the particular recordings we are playing, and how much to our disposition, approaching them—which is to say: Beethoven, rather than the particular artist? The question has come up a few times in the last months, as I’ve heard, dismissed, and been surprised by several new recordings. Most recently Olli Mustonen’s final installment of the five concertos containing the Fourth and Fifth on one disc, released late last year on SACD by Ondine. (He also includes Beethoven’s transcription of the Violin Concerto for piano—which is coupled with the Third on ODE 1123.)



Review By James Manheim,Allmusic.com,November 2009

This disc rounds out the Beethoven concerto cycle by the young Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen, earlier items of which have inspired wildly varied reactions among listeners. Mustonen is something of an innovator/radical/eccentric (take your pick), and his interpretations are revelatory for some, mannered for others. As usual, the truth is probably going to poke its head out somewhere in the middle, and Mustonen like every other pianist will be pegged for strengths and weaknesses. This disc offers, perhaps, good examples of both. Mustonen’s approach is at the same time dryly witty and oriented toward the excavation of the inner structures of the music (which is saying something). His tempos are variable, even to the point of inserting lengthy ritardandi into the music

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