In a matinee entitled Listener’s Academy, pianist Alexander Melnikov and the musicians of the B’Rock Orchestra break down Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto into its constituent parts before the listeners’ ears, explaining and demonstrating what holds the composition together at its heart and what and how the musicians hear while they are performing the work.
Alexander Melnikov piano
B’Rock Orchestra
Listener’s Academy
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C major, op. 15 (performed and commented)