Catalogue

Friends and Rivals: Beethoven and Hoffmeister
[br0009]

This second Friends and Rivals disc includes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Hoffmeister’s rare Piano Concerto in D major (BR0009) featuring pianist Felicja Blumental with the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
Felicja Blumental - piano
Robert Wagner - conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

• Allegro con brio (18'46)
• Largo (12'03)
• Rondo-Finale-Allegro (9'26)

• Allegro brioso (14'54)
• Adagio (7'41)
• Allegretto (9'36)

Liner Notes:

Friends and Rivals: Beethoven and Hoffmeister

It is noticeable that there are relatively few major works from the first decades of the 19th Century still in the repertoire, and of course Beethoven's tower over any of them. But although his cantankerous n...

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