performance · 37 min

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 | Alice Sara Ott, Nathalie Stutzmann & the London Symphony Orchestra

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Beethoven's only piano concerto in a minor key and one of the first piano concertos in which the orchestra and soloist are equal partners. Here, Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Nathalie Stutzmann with Alice Sara Ott on piano. The concert was recorded on November 10, 2022, at the Barbican Center, home of the London Symphony Orchestra. (00:00) I. Allegro con brio (17:13) II. Largo (26:59) III. Rondo: Allegro The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 is said to have electrified the audience at its premiere on April 5, 1803. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), a well-known piano virtuoso at the time, sat at the piano himself. He had asked his friend Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried to turn the sheet music during the performance. Unlike the orchestral parts, however, he had not yet written down the

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