Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos

The star pianist Jan Lisiecki was highly praised by the press for his complete recording of Beethoven’s 5 piano concertos: a magnificent complete recording. Lisiecki makes the progressive nature of Beethoven’s piano concertos more than inspiringly clear with his playing alone, with this balance of rhythmic directness, disarming spontaneity and admirable depth of expression. – Rondo. The album Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, released in collaboration with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, is now also available on DVD and Blu-ray at the beginning of the Beethoven Year 2020. The pianist does not see the 5 Concertos as a cycle in the strict sense: nevertheless they belong together, because they show an incredibly differentiated picture of the composer, starting with the first two concerts, which still reveal Mozart’s legacy, through the so different works 3 and 4, to the majestic E flat major Concerto. Lisiecki is fascinated by this diversity, because it brings together all of Beethoven’s important and sometimes contradictory facets. The highest premise for the pianist is musical clarity. Only then can a listener understand Beethoven’s music as the sum of different ideas. The album is a milestone at the beginning of the Beethoven Year 2020.