Beethoven - Piano Concerto in D major (Barenboim)

Beethoven Piano Concerto in D major - Daniel Barenboim, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Perhaps due to the Violin Concerto's lack of success at its premiere, and at the request of Muzio Clementi, Beethoven revised it in a version for piano and orchestra, which was later published as Op. 61a. For this version, which is present as a sketch in the Violin Concerto's autograph alongside revisions to the solo part,[13] Beethoven wrote a lengthy first movement cadenza which features the orchestra's timpanist along with the solo pianist. Source and more about the Beethoven's Violin Concerto: 0:00 Mov I - Allegro, ma non troppo, The greatest First Movement of all Beethoven's concertos, and one of the most beautiful. Here Beethoven surprises us by starting the concerto in an unusual way, with a Timpani announcing the beginning of the main theme, soon followed by the woodwinds. Beethoven writes one of the most beautiful melodic lines in his h