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Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 | Deutsche Grammophon 4776417

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 4776417

Barcode: 0028947764175

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 21st January 2008

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Contents

Artists

Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Russian National Orchestra

Conductor

Christian Gansch

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, op.73 'Emperor'

Artists

Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Russian National Orchestra

Conductor

Christian Gansch

About

Mikhail Pletnev’s Beethoven project is a large-scale recording venture that is unprecedented in his career – his first Beethoven Piano Concertos and Symphonies recordings. Pletnev recorded all Nine Symphonies with the Russian National Orchestra in a Moscow studio, while the five Piano Concertos were recorded live with the same orchestra over two days during the 2006 Beethoven Festival in Bonn. All of these musicians lived with and prepared this project in order to be able to record it in such a concentrated time span.

Pletnev is one of the truly unique and universal artists on DG: Like Beethoven himself, Pletnev is a pianist, a conductor, and a composer. The Beethoven project is very close to his heart: “For me Beethoven is like a god. I worship him, and I admire his music. It always produces very deep emotions in me when I’m conducting it or playing it on the piano.

The project – Pletnev’s interpretation of a large part of Beethoven’s oeuvre – reflects a very individual and special reading of Beethoven’s music. Pletnev is famous for being a free yet sublime musician. He strongly believes in interpretative freedom and an artist’s obligation not to deliver a “mausoleum-like performance” but rather to make classical music come to life by using it to communicate his own emotions to the audience. As Pletnev puts it, “It should go from heart to heart.

Recording: Bonn (Beethovenhalle), September 3, 2006 (live recording).

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