This is glorious
madness. Imagine running a marathon, then repeating it … four days in a
row. French-Canadian wonder Louis Lortie teams up with the New Jersey
Symphony to perform all five Beethoven piano concertos across four
days. The Thursday and Friday concerts features Beethoven’s first and last
concertos with the famed composer at the starting line of his
career, full of youthful fire before reaching his glorious pinnacle.
The Saturday and Sunday performances feature the “middle set” of his
concertos, which holds surprisingly tender music and passages of
jaw-dropping virtuosity.
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