Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance

“A winning combination of scholarship and intuition—and an unparalleled guide to understanding and performing these works.” —Emanuel Ax In his concertos Beethoven joined in a sort of human expression that seems almost universal: a discourse of the individual and the group, or of leader and followers who sometimes work together in harmony and sometimes appear pitted one against the other (early definitions of the concerto, indeed, were divided as to which was the main idea of the genre—coope...