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Beethoven Concertos

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Beethoven Concertos, Episode 1

Penny Gore presents music by Beethoven, Schoenberg and Stenhammar.

With Penny Gore. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 1; Fantasia in C minor. Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden. Stenhammar: Symphony No 2.

Penny Gore this week explores the complete concertos of Beethoven in recent performances recorded in Europe and the USA. Today there are two piano concertos, starting with the first he wrote, even though it was the second to be published. Also today, the veteran conductor Herbert Blomstedt conducts a rare performance of a symphony by the Swede, Wilhelm Stenhammar; his distinctly Nordic Second Symphony. 

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, op. 19 
Nelson Goerner (period piano)
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

c. 2.30pm 
Schoenberg Friede auf Erden (version of 1911 for choir and orchestra) 
Norwegian Soloists Chorus 
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Grete Pedersen (director)


c.2.40pm 
Beethoven Piano Concerto no 1, op. 15 
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano and director), Mahler Chamber Orchestra

3.15pm 
Stenhammar Symphony No. 2 in G minor, op. 34 
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)


4.00pm
Beethoven Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, op. 80 
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano and director), 
Norwegian Soloists Chorus, Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Afternoon Concert: Beethoven Concertos

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Penny Gore explores the complete concertos of Beethoven

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