Wilhelm Backhaus plays Beethoven #4 part4

Wilhelm Backhaus plays Beethoven Concerto No4. Without a doubt the very best peformance of the concerto to date. It shows one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters performing with the Vienna Symphony and Carl Bohm

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• piano

[armusik]

Backhaus had relaxed wrists and musicality

[Haskil2]

L'une des plus grandes, parce que les plus évidentes et simples en apparence, interprétations qu'on puisse voir et écouter de ce concerto. Bouleversant !

[davidgee100]

At 7:10, I view this as some of the most beautiful wind writing. I always wonder what the German musicians think of this place. This seems to be august and pastoral and of a mind that is at pace and with the greatest peaceful shadows, of Summer and of Fall.

[TheHanslick]

Backhaus is great, to say nothing about Böhm.

But still, Gulda is GOD. Of course, I adore bothe of

them, and before Gulda appeared, Backhaus was

for me Beethoven interpret no. 1

This recording was made by Unitel in 1967.

[abuhm]

what year this was?

[ykrahs666]

what r u talkn about? the beethoven ones are so common, it's nice to hear different cadenzas

[pianoenthusiast11]

the cadenza is his own

[dsds64]

Yes, interesting; thought it is always troubling not to hear the original cadenza. :)

The cadenza at the 1st movement was actually the original, I think.

[ratws]

Beethoven's rebirth Backhaus

[enantiodrom]

whose are the cadenzas?