Beethoven Piano Concerto no 4 in G major Paul Lewis

[@thejohnringo]

Lewis plays with a clarity and grace that celebrates Beethoven's lyricism, something that many performers do not achieve with the piano concertos and sonatas.

[@RobertOrgRobert]

Love this guys interpretation of the Beethoven Sonatas too

[@user-wu1my4nk6g]

外連味がなく、力と美に満ち、これぞベートーヴェンだ！ 見事。

[@etucker82]

I remember listening to this on the radio and thinking it was very good but he gave a performance a few years earlier with V. Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool at the Proms which might to this day have been the greatest I'd ever heard. It was preceded by a performance of Beethoven's 1st piano concerto which I thought was better. I later read that he had injured himself during the First, and played the Fourth through the pain. If that's true, then this has to count for a miraculous display of pianism.

[@zaramayne2444]

Remarkable pianist I heard on radio 3 today ....playing this piece of Beethoven... one could feel the true spirit of Beethoven therein the playing of this works

[@Gar7ism]

A precise and passionate performance. Lewis shows a great sensitivity to Beethoven.

[@andredrancourt3130]

RANS CURTIS talentueux s'impose avec un jeu veloce precis et sonore.Avec mes bien vives felicitations.soliste qui s'impose avec brio.

[@christrochamorales4260]

Fantastic

[@reecejennings]

Reece Jennings - Adelaide Dear Stromgull, whoever or whatever you are - I think you are wonderful and thank you for all this wonderful stuff. Obviously you have supernatural powers.

[@Hyramess]

A WONDERFUL artist! Very refined, beautifully understated playing. Where does he com from? Which orchestra? And who's the conductor?

[@Hyramess]

Why no second movement, and only part of the third? Interesting variation in the finale! Intentional? -- or a cleverly disguised error? What LUMINOUS playing! Has everything the coarse, barbaric approach of Dubravka Tomsic lacks.

[@malualterthum465]

Brillant

[@corneliasteckhan]

Einfach super

[@saltag]

Where's the slow movement...?

[@andrewvasnezov3263]

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 1 Allegro moderato 2 Andante con moto 3 Rondo (Vivace) Где 2 часть - Andante con moto????? 😂

[@Gar7ism]

Technically brilliant. Lewis has a certain light sensitivity he gives to Beethoven.

[@philharmonikerfan]

Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek

[@Hyramess]

Okay! BBC Symphony. Couldn't catch the conductor's name. Paul Lewis must be British. ;-)

[@remomazzetti8757]

This isn't a complete performance.

[@Erik83474]

Technically brilliant, but musically disappointing for an great artist as Paul Lewis. The sheer poetry of this piece is greatly "destroyed" by the tempo in the 1ste movement, which is really too fast. The 4th concerto is radically different from the 5th, but in this approach both concertos seem to have been written in the same spirit. I always go back to Uchida/Rattle or Uchida/Sanderling for this concerto.

[@MrKlemps]

I'm invariably finding myself disappointed in Paul Lewis. Is it possible that the critical hype has been exaggerated, always a danger in a market-driven business??

[@steps222]

Erik Vertriest For me, it's Moravec and Turnovsky by a wide margin. Then Sudbin/Vanska and Fellner/Nagano. Without the 2nd movement and much of the 3rd, it's impossible to tell what this performance was like.

[@johntaylor1953]

Czerny wrote: "It must not be dragged". Beautiful performance technically and musically!

[@oxyrushblowhard]

british lang lang ....pffft leon fleischer, annie fischer, ivan moravec, certainly very good just not great. sorry gramophone - blew it on this one.

[@definitelynotarobot4890]

Yeah fuck off mate