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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (1802) [35’45] Piano Sonatas – No. 21 in C, Op. 21, ‘Waldstein’ (1803/4) [25’57]; No. 24 in F sharp, Op. 78, ‘A Thérèse’ (1809) [10’39] Till Fellner (piano) ![]() Jean-Bernard Pommier (piano) (sonatas). Rec. Air Studios, London in November 1994 (Op. 37) and Fontfroide Abbey, Narbonne, France, in November 1991 (Sonatas). DDD ![]() |
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Here is a sensible programme, eminently sensibly played. As one might expect with the Academy of St Martin’s and Marriner, the orchestral contribution to the Third Concerto is clean as a whistle, with very little to complain about but similarly with little to ignite the flow of Beethoven’s best C minor mode. Thus the orchestra in the Largo, whatever its merits regarding tuning, ensemble and balance, fails to enter Beethoven’s intimate world. The whole performance is set in an over-reverberant acoustic that hardly helps the impression of an orchestra going through its paces. |
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