Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Jean-François Heisser, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Beethoven: Les 5 concertos pour piano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:58:25 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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The interpretation of the five concertos presented by Jean-François Heisser and his chamber orchestra offers an insight into the evolution of Beethoven’s style during the decisive ten years or so over which he composed them, on the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In short, it demonstrates how the improvisatory virtuoso pianist of the first two concertos, conceived at the very end of the eighteenth century in the tradition of Mozart and Haydn asserted his credentials as a composer in his own right with the Third Concerto in the first years of the nineteenth century, before reaching a summit with the surprises of his last two works in the genre.
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