Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (Nos. 1-5)

🎧 Listen to Brilliant’s playlist “Best of Beethoven” on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Kd3JGiRNMpXqNlRAYRHb1 🎵 Buy the MP3 album on the Official Halidon Music Store: https://www.halidonmusic.com/it/beethoven-5-piano-concertos-complete-album-9265.html These recordings are available for sync licensing in web video productions, corporate videos, films, ads and music compilations. For further information and licensing please contact [email protected]. 👉 The HalidonMusic Sync Licensing platform is now live at https://licensing.halidonmusic.com Beethoven - Piano Concertos First comes the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major. Although Beethoven wrote it after the B‑flat concerto, this was the one he chose to present in Vienna, likely during one of his early public appearances. Its bright fanfares and surprising key changes already show a bold young composer eager to break the rules. The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major was actually his first attempt at the form—composed years earlier but revised and polished for performance in Vienna. Listeners heard a clear Mozart influence, but Beethoven added his own fire and flair, especially in the sparkling finale. By 1803 the mood turns darker with the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor. It begins with stormy chords. At the premiere, Beethoven still hadn’t written out the solo part; he played most of it from memory while the page‑turner stared at nearly blank sheets. The Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major starts in a whisper: the piano speaks alone. In the slow middle section, the strings sound like angry spirits, and the soloist gently calms them—an episode many writers compare to Orpheus soothing the Furies. Outside, cannon fire rattles Vienna in 1809, yet Beethoven pens the radiant Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major. Publisher Johann Baptist Cramer later crowns it the “Emperor Concerto,” but the dedication goes to the composer’s loyal pupil‑patron, Archduke Rudolph—not to Napoleon. Tracklist: 00:00:00 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: I. Allegro con brio 00:13:59 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II. Largo 00:23:39 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: III. Rondo allegro 00:32:03 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: I. Allegro con brio 00:45:52 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: II. Adagio 00:53:49 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: III. Rondo. Allegro molto 00:59:53 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: I. Allegro con brio 01:16:11 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: II. Largo 01:25:05 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: III. Rondo. Allegro 01:34:13 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato 01:52:44 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto 01:57:45 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: III. Rondo. Vivace 02:07:33 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor Concerto": I. Allegro 02:26:49 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor Concerto": II. Adagio un poco mosso 02:33:58 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor Concerto": III. Rondo. Allegro Derek Han, Berliner Symphoniker & Paul Freeman © All rights reserved, courtesy of Brilliant Classics. --- Thank you so much for watching this video from the Halidon Music channel, we hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to share it and subscribe to our channel 🤗 #classicalmusic #beethoven #romanticmusic #piano