Gramophone Editor's Choice - June 2022

Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

After the first two instalments, highly praised by the press – “one of the finest, most... thrilling performances of [the] Fourth Concerto,” wrote Gramophone – Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester close their Beethoven trilogy with the classical yet already eminently personal Concerto no.1, and that masterpiece of intensity and drama, Concerto no.3.

Once again, period instruments and historically informed performance practice reveal the astonishing modernity that early listeners found in these works.