Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb. ( Helmchen)
The is the only one of Beethovens piano concertos that can properly be called a work in the High Classical tradition it was mostly written between 1787 and 1789, when Beethoven was in his teens and well before he started work on what is now known as the 1st Piano Concerto, deploys a small orchestra without any timpani, trumpets, or clarinets, and uses (especially in the first movement) a lot of figuration that could pretty reasonably be called Mozart or Haydnlike. But its also remarkable that ev
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