For this recording, Michael Korstick requested a new orchestration for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0, created by Hermann Dechant, which adds bassoons, trumpets, and timpani to the original instrumentation.
Composition History
The Swiss musicologist Willy Hess reconstructed the orchestral parts of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0, enabling its first complete performance in London in 1968.
Composition History
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 in E-flat major, WoO 4, was composed in 1784 when he was only 13 or 14 years old, though his father often made him appear younger to promote him as a child prodigy.
Composition History
During Beethoven's lifetime, there was no definitive numbering for his piano concerti; his student Carl Czerny even counted the Triple Concerto as No. 4 and the Violin Concerto transcription as No. 7.
Album & Artwork
This album's title, 'Piano Concerti 0 to 7', includes works beyond Beethoven's traditional 'canon of five piano concerti'.
Composition History
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 was only published over a century after its composition in 1890, having survived solely as a two-hand piano reduction with revisions in Beethoven's hand.
Compositional Technique
The solo part of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 is technically demanding, featuring strong dynamic contrasts, extended passages in thirds, and rapid 32nd-note passages, surpassing the difficulty of Mozart's concerti of the time.
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