
Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1 & 2
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Label: Challenge Classics
Cat No: CC72712
Format: SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 12th February 2016
Contents
Artists
Hannes MinnaarNetherlands Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jan Willem de VriendWorks
Piano Concerto no.1 in C major, op.15Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major, op.19
Artists
Hannes MinnaarNetherlands Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Jan Willem de VriendAbout
Strength, smoothness, humour. Those were among Beethoven’s own playing characteristics - identified by his pupil and fellow composer Carl Czerny - and they are certainly to be found in these performances of the Piano Concertos by Hannes Minnaar, surely among the most interesting and sought after pianists of his generation.
On this disc Minnaar, De Vriend and his orchestra play the concertos in reverse order. Artistically, this is easy to justify: introduced as it were by the more balanced, more modest Piano Concerto no.2, no.1 radiates all the more festiveness (trumpets, clarinets and timpani have come to join the orchestra). Perhaps the lovely, gentle, almost feminine B flat major of Concerto no.2 would not have been able to hold its own after the male and martial C major. But there is something else: the Second Piano Concerto actually came first. It was composed earlier, at least in its initial version.
De Vriend and his Netherlands Symphony Orchestra have also released a complete cycle of Beethoven Symphonies on Challenge (available on five separate discs and collectively in a box set). Together with violinist Isabelle van Keulen, Hannes Minnaar has previously recorded Beethoven’s Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin on the Dutch label.
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