Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4; Sonatas No 14 (Op 27, No 2 'Moonlight') and 31 (Op 110)

Lazić/Australian Chamber Orchestra/Tognetti(Channel Classics)Croatian pianist-composer Dejan Lazić will doubtless add to his reputation for erratic brilliance with this recording of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto. Recorded live in Sydney in 2009, it uses more or less the standard score, though Lazić throws us off balance on occasion by adopting some of the more extreme dynamic and tempo markings from an arrangement Beethoven made for piano and string quintet after the work's premiere. Gesturing...

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