{"id":10727,"date":"2020-09-03T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:01:07","slug":"ten-days-five-concertos-bezuidenhouts-beethoven-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/albums\/ten-days-five-concertos-bezuidenhouts-beethoven-challenge-10727\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Days, Five Concertos – Bezuidenhout\u2019s Beethoven Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester have made an exciting period-instrument trilogy of Beethoven\u2019s<\/a> Piano Concertos that looks likely to become a landmark recording. All five concertos were recorded during an intense ten-day session.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The idea was born during Bezuidenhout\u2019s tour with the Freiburg Orchestra in 2015, playing Beethoven’s C minor concerto<\/a> . At some point it was proposed that they record all five of these enigmatic pieces in one shot. Kristian explains: <\/p>\n

\u201cOn the face of it, I was seriously attracted by the idea of spending so much time with Beethoven \u2013 after all, I had done a similar thing with the solo music of Mozart and have become convinced that true immersion in the language of a composer (particularly in the recording studio) is only really possible when one has no distractions. With the benefit of hindsight, however, the plan and the entire experience now seems utterly deranged, lunatic, nigh-impossible and physically exhausting at times to the point of despair. Yet, somehow, and with equal power, an experience of such magic, and deep spiritual enrichment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n