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Beethoven / Rubinstein
[br0023]

This disc features the greatest of Beethoven’s piano concertos, the “Emperor,” as well as his barely known Romance Cantabile and Rubinstein’s one movement orchestral 'Konzerstück', worth listening to for it’s unusual combination of instruments!

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, OP. 73 "Emperor"
Felicja Blumental - piano
Robert Wagner - conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

• Allegro (20'49)
• Adagio un poco mosso (7'44)
• Rondo Allegro (10'41)

Anton Rubinstein - Konzertstück for piano and orchestra (24'27)
Felicja Blumental - piano
Helmut Froschauer - conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Total running time (69'08)

Liner Notes:

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op 73 'The Emperor'

It is often said that Beethoven wrote his fifth and final piano concerto at a time when he had reached his height of genius. Composed in what is known to be Beethoven’s “middle pe...

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