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# Beethoven: The Forgotten Concerto for Pianoforte, Op. 61a
- URL: https://neuemannheimerorchester.de/projects/beethoven-the-forgotten-concerto-for-pianoforte-op-61a/
- Published: 2024-07-25T22:22:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T21:56:16.000Z
- Author: Anders Muskens
- Tags: #project, #Import 2026-11-09 10:24, #project-beethoven-the-forgotten-concerto-for-pianoforte-op-61a, #thumb-top

This album presents a fresh interpretation on period instruments of Ludwig van Beethoven’s seldom-heard Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 61a – Beethoven’s own transcription of his celebrated Violin Concerto, Op. 61, completed in 1807\. Anders Muskens plays an original grand fortepiano by John Broadwood & Sons, London, c. 1806, with Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester, which he leads jointly with the Australian/British concertmaster Rachael Beesley.

Our approach embraces the expressivity of early Romantic aesthetics and experiments with the expressive devices of the nineteenth-century orchestra. Many of them – flexibility of tempo and rhythm, dislocation, portamento – are seldom heard from orchestras today, yet they were integral to nineteenth-century performing practice. The result is a new take on Beethoven, grounded in historical sources, that challenges the status quo.

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## Programme

- **Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)** Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 61a (1807)
- **I. Allegro ma non troppo** Cadenza by Beethoven, adapted to a 5½-octave compass by Anders Muskens
- **II. Larghetto** Ausgang improvised by Anders Muskens
- **III. Rondo. Allegro** Eingang improvised and cadenza semi-improvised by Anders Muskens

## Musicians and credits

### Soloist and direction

- **Anders Muskens** fortepiano and direction
- **Rachael Beesley** concertmaster and co-director

### Orchestra

- **Violin I** Noyuri Hazama, Alexandra Lopez, Yumina Ishii
- **Violin II** Pietro Battistoni, Saaya Ikenoya, Ana Ares Giusti, Alexandre Turmel
- **Viola** Jasper Snow, Lena Rademann
- **Cello** Evan Buttar, Anne-Linde Visser
- **Double bass** Alon Portal
- **Flute** Florencia Gómez
- **Oboe** Federico Forla, Karolina Szymanik
- **Clarinet** Elia Celegato, Alejandro Fariña Martin
- **Horn** Nicolas Roudier, Fabio Forgiarini
- **Bassoon** Bernat Gili, Jeong-Guk Lee
- **Trumpet** Nicolas Isabelle, Amir Rabinovitz
- **Timpani** Rubén Castillo del Pozo

### Instrument

- Grand pianoforte by John Broadwood & Sons, London, c. 1806; restored by Paul Kobald, Amsterdam, 2022

### Production

- **Producer and lead sound engineer** Jakub Klimeš
- **Piano technician and tuning** Paul Kobald
- **Label** Leaf Music Distribution