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What we know as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Opus 15, was sketched in 1795-96, completed in 1798 (three years after the work known as his Piano Concerto No. 2), and possibly first performed by Beethoven at his first public concert in Vienna on 29 March 1795. Enjoy this 1970 video of Leonard Bernstein conducting from the piano with the Vienna Philharmonic in an excerpt from the second movement (Largo) of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. | Leonard Bernstein

A Concert for 21 Pianos. :-) | Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, is grand and spectacular, and one of magnificent parts of the concerto is its simple and moving adagio. Here Beethoven makes a brilliant decision: the piano becomes the accompaniment to the orchestra, but maintains the leading. The version is by Maurizio Pollini and the RAI Symphony Orchestra of Rome conducted by Claudio Abbado in a recording from 1967. | History of Music