New CD: Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano release Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 (Berlin Classics)

With Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 E-flat Major WoO 4, a nearly unknown youth work of the composer, and his Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6, Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano expand their joint recordings of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

The 4-CD edition will be released on 11 October 2019 with Berlin Classics.

On this CD, Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano present a very personal adaptation of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 0 which reflects their individual image of Beethoven as a youngster – exuberant freshness, an urgent sense of awakening in the young, almost childlike Beethoven writing shortly before his artistic powers developed to the maximum, the joie de vivre and vital energy in a style that owes something to the playfulness of both Haydn and Mozart. The adaptation is based on the autograph of the compressed score; a complete orchestration by Beethoven does not exist.

The 4-CD edition (Piano Concertos Nos. 0-5, Triple Concerto, Rondo for piano and orchestra, bonus track: "Eroica" Variations for piano solo) offers a profound insight into the year-long engagement of the musicians with the works for piano and orchestra of Beethoven, who has become a true musical companion for them. And not only that: “If you play them all, it’s like travelling with Beethoven through his entire life,” says Mari Kodama.

If you wish to receive a PR copy of the CD, please contact Hasko Witte:

hasko.witte@bkw-net.de
49 40 650 40 860
49 171 344 35 65
www.bkw-net.de/portfolio-item/mari-kodama-kent-nagano/

Further Projects of Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama

19 July, 20h MESZ / 14h EDT: live video stream on SWRClassic.de ( follow-up stream)

with SWR Symphonieorchester, Schönberg: Piano Concerto op. 42 and Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 A Major

Kent Nagano will end his current season 2018/2019 with a number of concerts at La Virée Classique / Classical Spree in Montreal, where Mari Kodama will also present a recital with Vadim Repin.

After starting the upcoming season with a new production of Shostakovich's The Nose (director: Karin Beier) at the Hamburg State Opera, he will embark on a tour through South America with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal with a finishing concert in Chicago. A Japan tour with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra will follow a few weeks later.

For further details on Kent Nagano’s and Mari Kodama’s concerts please see the list of PR² classic artists’ concert dates from September until November 2019.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us should you be interested in an interview with Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano.