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beethoven festival week!

The Oregon Symphony’s Beethoven Festival (rehearsals begin today) kicks off May 15th with the Lenore Overture No. 3, the Piano Concerto No. 2, and the Triple Concerto.  Arnaldo Cohen is the amazing pianist who will be playing all of the concertos.  He’ll be joined in the Triple by OSO concertmaster Jun Iwasaki and cellist Quirine Viersen (who played the Dvorak Concerto this past weekend).

In this first video, pianist Mitsuko Uchida plays the Concerto No. 2 with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.

and here is a portion of the first movement of the sprawling Triple Concerto, featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-yo Ma, and pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim with the Berlin Philharmonic.