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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Piano Breakdown

The orchestra interrupted the piano four times there. It amounts to an authorÖ onPlayska Ross-born. In the right performance I think personally that the orchestra should get more and more emphatic each time, though this is not something that Beethoven writes. But did you notice something about these interruptions? It's as if the piano barely noticed that they were there. Both groups seemed determined to stay on their paths all the way to the end. Until now. Suddenly the orchestra, which was so full of rage before, plays much softer,. The piano continues on, but the interruptions get softer and softer and softer, as if all that anger is fading away. And

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