Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 /Schoonderwoerd * Ensemble Cristofori [Import]

Beethoven (Composer), Arthur Schoonderwoerd; Cristofoi (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Arthur Schoonderwoerd; Cristofoi
• Composer: Beethoven
• Audio CD (November 8, 2005)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Alpha Productions
• ASIN: B0009WFR5W
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,327 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pared Down Beethoven, March 12, 2006

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L. Bagnall "LEN BAGNALL" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 /Schoonderwoerd * Ensemble Cristofori (Audio CD)

This was a real revelation to me! A small orchestra playing the way it no doubt sounded in Beethoven's day! I heard things that I've not noticed before and found the performance thrilling!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beethoven Piano (forte) Concerto Nos. 4 & 5, October 21, 2007

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Anthony E. Brauer "historian" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 /Schoonderwoerd * Ensemble Cristofori (Audio CD)

This is a rather different interpretation of these well known pieces.

Noteable is the tone and clarity of the forte piano used,much richer than what many would come to expect.

Also worthy of note is the way,in the Concerto No.4,in which Cristofori bring to the fore a remarkeable sounding viola.

Overall,it is worth the listening and may in fact quite closely resemble the way in which it was first presented and performed.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why so small??????, June 16, 2010

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D. Irving - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5 /Schoonderwoerd * Ensemble Cristofori (Audio CD)

Although I am a lover of original instruments, I can't been enthusiastic about this recording. The one-on-a-part string section doesn't work. I have only listened to #5, but the viola responses on the first movement sound like a rebec player trying to scratch out a romantic tune- it needs a full section. Everything is so clear that you get no feeling for the impression Beethoven was creating. If I wanted to know every note he wrote I could just look at the score. Wow, I sound like an anti-early instrument guy!!!! That's truly weird.

I attended a fantastic performance last Sunday of #3 with a Massachusetts original instrument ensemble, the Arcadia Players. This was a small orchestra, but still there 5 or so violins on a part. What a difference!