Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Triple Concerto (Bonus Track Version)

Released in time for the conductor’s 90th birthday, here’s a treasurable memento of Bernard Haitink’s close rapport with the LSO. They’ve already given us an impressive symphony cycle, and now the same qualities of classy musicianship and Haitink’s winningly ego-free approach make for very satisfying listening. In the *Piano Concerto No. 2*, Pires articulates the solo line with great clarity and considerable poetry (above all in the *Adagio*). In the *Triple Concerto*, Lars Vogt, alongside two LSO principals, offers a similar combination of sense and fantasy, the music sparkling when required. A dramatic performance of the seldom-heard *Leonore Overture No. 2* completes a Beethovenian feast.