Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (with Full Score)

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (with Full Score)
Composed: 1796 - 1803
Piano: Krystian Zimerman
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker

00:00 1. Allegro con brio (C minor)
(12:55 Cadenza by Beethoven)
17:00 2. Largo (E major)
28:48 3. Rondo. Allegro (C minor) – Presto (C major)

Beethoven composed this work in 1799-1800, and introduced it at Vienna on April 5, 1803. The first sketches go back to 1797 -- after he'd composed the B flat Piano Concerto (published as No. 2), but before composition of the C major Concerto (in 1798, published as No. 1). Although Beethoven played the first performance of No. 3 in 1803 from a short score -- no one was going to steal it from him! -- he'd actually completed the music prior to April 1800, apart from a few last-minute adjustments. In other words, before he wrote the Second Symphony (Op. 36), the Moonlight Piano Sonata (Op. 27/2), or the Op. 31 triptych for keyboard.