Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Op 58 / Piano Concerto in D Op 61

"Brautigam and Parrott bring period manners into play: the soloist's articulation is pristine without sounding brittle, while the strings play with sparing vibrato, permitting chamber-music wind solos and a feeling of rare intimacy. One listens with spring-cleaned ears" Sunday Times, 17th January 2010 ****

"Brautigam gets as close as possible to Beethoven's own performance style." Gramophone Magazine, February 2010

At the public première of the Fourth Piano Concerto in 1808, Beethoven performed the piano part very 'capriciously' according to his pupil Carl Czerny, playing many more notes than are to be found in the printed edition. A clear indication of what Beethoven played comes from his copyist's orchestral score, in which the outer movements contain annotations in the composer's hand. These have been transcribed by Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper who describes this rarely recorded 1808 version as 'more sparkling, virtuosic and sophisticated than the standard one'.