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Hearing all his piano concertos renders an image of Beethoven.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-JUN-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hearing all his piano concertos renders an image of Beethoven.(Entertainment)(A highlight of the Bach Festival this week will be Jeffrey Kahane playing the cycle)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard

Playing just one of Ludwig van Beethoven's five virtuosic piano concertos on a single program is enough for most pianists. But Jeffery Kahane is up to doing all five concertos in two Oregon Bach Festival programs.

"It's not a stunt, but it may appear that way," Kahane said by phone from his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. "There is something very deep and powerful that comes from listening to and performing a complete group of works in proximity.

"It allows you to hear the connections between the works and to hear the growth from one to another."

A piano prodigy, Beethoven was only 25 when he wrote his first piano concerto (Concerto No. 2 - the first and second concertos were published in reverse order).

As soon as he was done, he...

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