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Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 & Choral Fantasia

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer Ronald Brautigam
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Parrott, conductor
Catalogue Number BIS-1793 SACD
EAN 7318599917931
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Jul 2010
Total time 52'38


For the final instalment of his survey of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra, Ronald Brautigam has saved 'the final crowning glory of his concerto output', as Beethoven specialist Barry Cooper describes the Fifth Piano Concerto in his liner notes. The work has become known as the Emperor Concerto, as it shares its key (E flat major) as well as a certain sense of power and grandeur with the Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'. It is coupled on this disc with the Choral Fantasia - an intriguing work scored for piano, orchestra and chorus with vocal soloists. The explanation for this Read more
 
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  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 ‘Emperor’ 34'17
01 I. Allegro 18'18
02 II. Adagio un poco mosso 6'19
03 III. Rondo. Allegro 9'40
 
04 Choral Fantasia in C minor, Op.80 for piano, chorus and orchestra 17'26
 
  Album total 52'38
ConductorParrott, Andrew
PianoBrautigam, Ronald
ComposerBeethoven, Ludwig van
OrchestraNorrköping Symphony Orchestra
ChoirEric Ericson Chamber Choir

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