Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (with Full Score)

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (with Full Score)
Composed: 1796 - 1803
Piano: Krystian Zimerman
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker

00:00 1. Allegro con brio (C minor)
(12:55 Cadenza by Beethoven)
17:00 2. Largo (E major)
28:48 3. Rondo. Allegro (C minor) – Presto (C major)

Beethoven composed this work in 1799-1800, and introduced it at Vienna on April 5, 1803. The first sketches go back to 1797 -- after he'd composed the B flat Piano Concerto (published as No. 2), but before composition of the C major Concerto (in 1798, published as No. 1). Although Beethoven played the first performance of No. 3 in 1803 from a short score -- no one was going to steal it from him! -- he'd actually completed the music prior to April 1800, apart from a few last-minute adjustments. In other words, before he wrote the Second Symphony (Op. 36), the Moonlight Piano Sonata (Op. 27/2), or the Op. 31 triptych for keyboard.

[joellezhu]

An amateur music lover. For the first time I read a full score of a concerto, and found out it not that difficult as I imagined! and definitely deeppen my understanding of this piece! How wonderful when you see such marvelous sound demostrate on the sheet in such concise manner.

[matthewm]

I love the wonderful theme shared by the piano and orchestra from 32:23 - 34:09! Those trills on the piano are amazing backed up by the winds!

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1 mov. "Allego con brio" : 00:00
2 mov. "Largo" : 17:01
3 mov. "Rondo, Allegro" : 28:48

[detectivehome]

Thank you!!! I've wanted Beethoven 3 up for 2 years now!!

[matthewm]

My favorite piano concerto by Beethoven!

[windmillwilly]

One of Beethoven’s most mysterious works. For a short period after this was written, all of Beethoven’s letters to his friends and family had him adamantly denying any involvement in writing it. Then, after a brief hiatus in his letters, he switched to fervently boasting about his genius, and the magnitude of this concerto, and how he had “killed God with the cursed hammer of Orpheus.” Very strange.

[VincentGiza-Composer]

I may be overthinking this, but I hear a twinge of Mahler 2 at 0:11

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Please...
upload the" Full score for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4"..,

[cleebaar]

@24:39 the out of tune D# caught me off gaurd

[hjo]

the part beginning at 19:33 reminds on the ending of "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" from Mozart's Don Giovanni (K527)

[Raffael-Tausend]

Der zweite Satz ist so langsam und der dritte so schnell! Welch ein Kontrast!

[gervaisfrykman]

Wonderfully stylish, even revelatory accounts of the outer movements. The slow movement was too slow to be entirely credible.

[danielf]

The opening theme of the 3rd movement sounds very much like the theme from the 4th movement of Mozart's String Quintet No. 2 in c minor. Maybe he claimed he didn't write it because he stole it from Mozart...

[erika]

Funny that with this piece Beethoven felt he had elevated himself to the level of a god - I actually think it's a bit of a mess and inferior to his Fourth and Fifth concerti, as well as his C Major effort. It sounds like an odd blur between his first and second period ideals and compositional approaches, and its lacking his trademark perfectionist touch.