Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos / Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta

$13.49
Label
Ondine
Release Date
May 1, 2020
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Tapiola Sinfonietta
    • PERFORMER
      Mustonen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 01, 2020
    • UPC
      761195135921
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ODE 1359-2T
    • LABEL
      Ondine
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con brio (cadenza by O. Mustonen)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    2. II. Largo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro (cadenza by O. Mustonen)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    4. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    5. II. Adagio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    6. III. Rondo: Allegro molto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    7. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    8. II. Largo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    9. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    10. I. Allegro, ma non troppo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    11. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    12. III. Rondo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    13. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    14. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    15. III. Rondo: Vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    16. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    17. II. Adagio un poco moto -

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen

    18. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta

      Performer: Olli Mustonen

      Conductor: Olli Mustonen


Ondine celebrates Beethoven’s 250th anniversary of birth by re-issuing Olli Mustonen’s Beethoven cycle with the Tapiola Sinfonietta. The three volumes were originally released in three separate volumes from 2007-2009. Mustonen, described by The Sunday Times as “living dream of pianism”, is known for delivering fresh and visionary approach to standard works – this is evident in these masterful recordings of Beethoven’s concertos. Mustonen is a particularly fitting exponent for Beethoven’s music as the composer himself was also both visionary and revolutionary in his approach to tradition. The recording of Piano Concerto No. 1 includes Mustonen’s own cadenzas. Beethoven’s own Piano Concerto arrangement of his Violin Concerto is also featured – one of Mustonen’s signature pieces.

REVIEW:

Mustonen plays the five concertos of a piece, not starting out with Mozartean elegance in the first two and building up to mature Beethoven somewhere in Concerto No. 3. He attacks every bar vigorously and with decisive intent. In my experience, no one since Mikhail Pletnev’s highly original and at times eccentric cycle on DG has sounded so personal in music that too often trips off the fingers with glib sameness.

My overall defense of a cycle that will strike other listeners as totally arbitrary comes down to Mustonen being a composer, not a touring pianist playing subscription concerts. These are a composer’s responses to Beethoven, and Mustonen has the fingers to express them with confident assurance and at times with dazzling flourishes. In my corner this release is one of the most refreshing of the Beethoven year.

– Fanfare