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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
Giltburg doesn’t deal in pianistic thunder but in long phrases and in unsignposted details of articulation, and in both concertos he and Petrenko generally draw out the contrasts and drama with...
Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4
Boris Giltburg (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
Giltburg doesn’t deal in pianistic thunder but in long phrases and in unsignposted details of articulation, and in both concertos he and Petrenko generally draw out the contrasts and drama with...
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For 19th-century audiences Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions with brilliance and triumphant grandeur. Piano Concerto No. 4 is the most introspective and poetic of the concertos. The simplicity of its opening piano statement gives way to an unprecedented dialogue in the central movement between a heartfelt piano and an austere unison string orchestra, before the infectious energy of the dramatic finale.
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Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Concerto
April 2023
Giltburg doesn’t deal in pianistic thunder but in long phrases and in unsignposted details of articulation, and in both concertos he and Petrenko generally draw out the contrasts and drama with a certain amount of subtlety.
April 2023
Petrenko continues to favour the kind of lean, transparent textures, rhythmic spring and crisply aligned ensemble work associated with Szell, Zinman and Dausgaard, along with Abbado in his latter-day Mahler Chamber Orchestra recordings.
March 2023
Beautifully played and sensitively accompanied… After the lean, crisp introduction provided by Petrenko and the RLPO, so closely is Boris Giltburg’s sonorous, bell-like tone recorded here… Giltburg’s execution of the cadenza in the first movement of the Fourth is a masterclass.
