Lugansky Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) • Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (1805-1806) • Nikolai Lugansky, soloist • Nikolai Alekseev conducting St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, 2020 • From St. Petersburg Philharmonic • [0:00] I. Allegro moderato • [13:58] - Cadenza • [18:56] II. Andante con moto • [23:40] III. Rondo. Vivace • [31:24] - Cadenza • • Concerto is a form of theater. Beethoven, an experienced and commanding pianist, had a keen feeling for that, and his first three mature piano concertos and his Violin Concerto, all of which had been heard in Vienna by the spring of 1807, make something striking of the first solo entrance. The older Beethoven grew, the more imaginative he became. In the Triple Concerto, a beautiful, problematic work that was completed a couple of years before the Fourth Piano Concerto, the cello enters with the first theme, but a breath later than you expect and with a magical transformation of character. In the Violin Concerto, the solo arises spaciously from the receding orchestra; after that comes the Emperor Concerto, where right at the beginning three plain chords provoke three grand fountains of broken chords, trills, and scales. But it is here, in this most gently spoken and poetic of all his concertos, that Beethoven offers his most radical—to begin with the piano alone. It is a move without precedent. What is also remarkable is how rarely Beethoven has been copied in this stroke.” • Michael Steinberg, San Francisco Symphony

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