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Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos / Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta
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Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos / Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta

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Composer
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
Artist
Mustonen
Format
CD
Label
Ondine
Released
May 01, 2020
Catalog #
ODE 1359-2T
UPC
761195135921

About

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

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Allegro con brio (cadenza by O. Mustonen) 14:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con brio (cadenza by O. Mustonen)
    Duration
    14:30
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  3. 2 II. Largo 09:34
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    09:34
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  4. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro (cadenza by O. Mustonen) 09:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro (cadenza by O. Mustonen)
    Duration
    09:15
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  5. 4 I. Allegro con brio 14:02
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro con brio
    Duration
    14:02
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  6. 5 II. Adagio 07:28
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    07:28
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  7. 6 III. Rondo: Allegro molto 06:42
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro molto
    Duration
    06:42
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  8. Disc 2
  9. 1 I. Allegro con brio 17:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con brio
    Duration
    17:16
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  10. 2 II. Largo 08:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    08:45
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  11. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro 08:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    08:50
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  12. 4 I. Allegro, ma non troppo 22:05
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro, ma non troppo
    Duration
    22:05
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  13. 5 II. Larghetto 07:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    07:59
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  14. 6 III. Rondo 09:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Rondo
    Duration
    09:21
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  15. Disc 3
  16. 1 I. Allegro moderato 18:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    18:14
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  17. 2 II. Andante con moto 04:45
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    04:45
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  18. 3 III. Rondo: Vivace 09:31
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Vivace
    Duration
    09:31
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  19. 4 I. Allegro 21:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    21:10
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  20. 5 II. Adagio un poco moto - 07:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio un poco moto -
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen
  21. 6 III. Rondo: Allegro 11:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    11:21
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performer
    Olli Mustonen
    Ensemble
    Tapiola Sinfonietta
    Conductor
    Olli Mustonen