This album features a fresh interpretation on period instruments of Ludwig van Beethoven's seldom-heard Piano Concerto in D major Op. 61a – Beethoven’s own piano transcription of his famous Violin Concerto Op. 61, completed during 1807. The solo is performed by Anders Muskens on an original fortepiano by John Broadwood & Sons in London c. 1806, restored by Paul Kobald in Amsterdam in 2022. He is accompanied by the ensemble Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester, jointly led by Muskens and Australian / British concertmaster Rachael Beesley. Our approach indulges in the expressivity and emotionality of early Romantic aesthetics, and we dare to engage and experiment with expressive devices of the nineteenth-century orchestra. Many of these devices, like tempo and rhythmic flexibility, dislocation, and portamenti are not commonly practiced by today’s orchestras; however, they were integral to the nineteenth-century orchestral performing practice. This album presents a new take on Beethoven, inspired by historical sources, that challenges the status quo.