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Perahia Plays Beethoven

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The Five Piano Concertos
The second programme in this series recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in which Murray Perahia is the soloist in the complete cycle of Beethoven Concertos. With the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields led by Kenneth Sillito conducted by Neville Marriner
Concerto No 2 in B flat and Concerto No 4 in G

Between the concertos, Jane Glover discusses the background to the music with soloist and conductor. These concertos centre round slow movements which seem to look forward to late Beethoven. Against the hushed gravity of Perahia was the incisive yet sympathetic playing of the Academy. THE GUARDIAN 0 A simultaneous broadcast with R3.

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Unknown:
Murray Perahia
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Unknown:
Jane Glover
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