Despite his status as a musical superstar at the time, very little is known about the creation of Beethoven’s final concerto, composed in 1809 and the only one of his piano concertos that he did not play himself; his deafness was too limiting by that time for public performance. How it got its nickname is only one of the unknowns, but it is hard to miss the noble grandeur of its musical ideas.

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Ravel’s impassioned and sensual account of the famous pastoral lovers, conducted by a master of French orchestral color.