Dialogue at the SummitThe five piano concertos by Beethoven tell a part of his life in their own way. In the previous volume of this complete set, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, and the Freiburger Barockorchester explored the beginning (concerto no. 2, a true Viennese springboard) and the end ("The Emperor") of the story; they now focus on the most personal of all, this fourth concerto which, while the specter of total deafness looms, shatters the conventions of the genre - like Coriolan and the overture of The Creatures of Prometheus.