Complete Recordings of Beethoven's Piano Concertos This is always a work in progress, suggestions are welcome
  Soloist Conductor / Orchestra Label Rec. date Additional Works
Afanassiev, Valéry Hubert Soudant / Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg (rec. live) Oehms Classics 2003-4
Aimard, Pierre-Laurent Harnoncourt / Chamber Orch. of Europe Teldec 2000-2
Arrau, Claudio Galliera / Philharmonia Orch. Columbia 1959
Arrau, Claudio Haitink / Concertgebouw Orch. Philips 1965
Arrau, Claudio Colin Davis / Dresden State Orch. Philips 1986
Ashkenazy, Vladimir Solti / Chicago Symphony Decca 1970's
Ashkenazy, Vladimir Haitink / London Philharmonic (Rec. live) Decca (DVD Video) 1974
Ashkenazy, Vladimir Mehta /  Vienna PO Decca 1981-4
Ashkenazy, Vladimir Cleveland Orchestra (conducted from keyboard) Decca 1986-7 Choral Fantasy op.80
Ax, Emmanuel Previn / Royal PO RCA 1986-7
Backhaus, Wilhelm Clemens Krauss (2-5), Karl Böhm (#1) / Vienna PO Decca 1950-3
Backhaus, Wilhelm Schmidt-Isserstedt / Vienna PO (Rec. Sofiensaal, Vienna) Decca 1958-9
Badura-Skoda, Paul Scherchen / Vienna State Opera Orch. Westminster LPs 1951-4
Barenboim, Daniel Klemperer / New Philharmonia EMI 1968
Barenboim, Daniel Berlin PO  (conducted from keyboard) EMI 1990's
Berezovsky, Boris Dausgaard / Swedish Chamber Orch. Simax c.2005-6 Rondo in B flat WoO 6, Triple Concerto, Piano Con in D (Violin Con. Trans.)
Biret, Idil Naci Özgüc / Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Turkey) (rec. live) BMP 0029 1998 Choral Fantasy op.80
Blumental, Felicja Robert Wagner / Vienna Sym. Orch. Orion ORS 7018/6 (Everest reissue) 1967
Brendel, Alfred Boettcher (1), Walberg (2-4), Mehta (5) / Vienna Orchestras Vox 1960's Choral Fantasy op.80
Brendel, Alfred Haitink / London Philharmonic Philips 1979 Choral Fantasy op.80
Brendel, Alfred Levine / Chicago SO (live) Philips 1983
Brendel, Alfred Rattle / Vienna Philharmonic Philips 1999
Bronfman, Yefim Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich Arte Nova c.2005-6 Triple Concerto
Buchbinder, Rudolf Vienna Symphony (conducted from keyboard) ORF 348 2003
Ciccolini, Aldo Ceccato / Lirica I Pomeriggi Musical (Rec. in Milan) Frame (#137) 2001 (live) Choral Fantasy op.80
Dikov, Anton Tabakov / Sofia PO Laserlight 1980's
Douglas, Barry Camerata Ireland (cond. From keyboard, Mahoney Hall, Dublin) Satirino Classic (France) 2005-7 Triple Concerto
Duchable, Francois-Rene John Nelson / Ensemble Orchestral de Paris Ambroisie Interactive (DVD Video) 2003 Live - Versailles Palace
Entremont, Phillipe Netherlands Chamber Orch. (conducted from keyboard) Vanguard 1990's
Fleisher, Leon Szell / Cleveland Orchestra SONY 1959-61
Gilels, Emil OSCC Paris / Vandernoot (1,2), Cluytens (3);  L. Ludwig / Philharmonia (4, 5) EMI (4,5 on Testament) 1957, 1954 (#3)
Gilels, Emil Kurt Sanderling / Czech Phil. Orch. (live rec.) Multisonic 1958
Gilels, Emil Szell / Cleveland Orchestra EMI 1968
Gilels, Emil Kurt Masur / State Sym. Orch. of the USSR (live) Brilliant Classics 1976
Goode, Richard Ivan Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra Nonesuch 2005
Gould, Glenn Golschmann (1), Bernstein (2,3,4), Stokowski (5) SONY 1957-66
de Groot, Cor Willem van Otterloo / Vienna SO (1-4), Hague PO (5) Doremi DHR 7937-9 (3 CDs) 1950-4
Gulda, Friedrich Horst Stein / Vienna PO Decca LPs 1970-71
Han, Derek Freeman / Berlin Symphony Orch. Intersound 1995
Immerseel, Jos van Weil / Tafelmusik  (orig. instrum.) SONY - Vivarte 1995-7
Katchen, Julius Pierino Gamba / London SO Decca 1963 Choral Fantasy op.80
Kempff, Wilhelm Van Kempen / Berlin PO DG (mono) 1953
Kempff, Wilhelm Leitner / Berlin PO DG 1961
Kissin, Evgeny Davis / London SO EMI 2007?
Kovacevich, Stephen (Bishop) Colin Davis / BBC SO, London SO (in # 5) Philips 6747104 (LP) 1970-74
Kovacevich, Stephen Australian Chamber Orchestra (conducted from keyboard) EMI Eminence 1991-2
Kuerti, Anton Andrew Davis / Toronto SO CBC 1986
de Larrocha, Alicia Chailly / RSO Berlin Decca 1983-4 Choral Fantasy op.80
Levin, Robert Gardiner / Orch. Revolutionnaire et Romantique (orig. instrum.) DG - Archiv 1990's Choral Fantasy op.80
Lill, John Gibson / Scottish National Orch. Cfp 1979-81 Choral Fantasy op.80
Lill, John Weller / City of Birmingham SO Chandos 1990's
Lubin, Steven Hogwood / Acad. Of Ancient Music (orig. instrum.) Decca/L'Oiseau Lyre 1980's
Lupu, Radu Mehta / Israel PO Decca 1977-9
Newman, Anthony Simon / Philharmonia Baroque Orch. (NY & London; orig. instrum.) Newport Classic 1986-7 Choral Fantasy op.80
O'Conor, John Andreas Delfs / London Symphony Orchestra Telarc 2007
Ohlsson, Garrick Michael Palmer / American Sinfonietta Summit 2003
Oppitz, Gerhard Marek Janowski / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch. RCA BMG 1996
Ortiz, Christina Hickox / City of London Sinfonia INMP Classic 1987
Panenka, Jan Václáv Smetácek / Prague SO Suraphon 1968-71
Perahia, Murray Haitink / Concertgebouw Orch. SONY 1985-7
Pierce, Joshua Bystrik Rezucha / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra MSR Classics, MS1200 late 1990's Conc. in E-flat WoO 4, Rondo in B-flat WoO 6
Pletnev, Mikhail Christian Gansch / Russian National Orch. (live at Bonn Festival) DG 2006
Pludermacher, Georges Moshe Atzmon / Bretagne Orchestra (Live Reims Summer Music Festival) Transart Live #137 2004
Pollini, Maurizio Jochum (1-2), Böhm (3-5) / Vienna PO DG 1976, 1982 (1-2)
Pollini, Maurizio Abbado / Berlin PO DG 1992-3
Romero, Gustavo Sedares / English Chamber Orchestra Koch 1995
Roll, Michael Howard Shelley / Royal PO Centurion / Mebran 1995 Triple Concerto
Rosel, Peter Claus Peter Flor / Berlin Sym. Orch. Berlin Classics 1988-91 Rondo in B-flat
Rubinstein, Artur Krips / Symphony of the Air RCA 1956
Rubinstein, Artur Leinsdorf / Boston SO RCA 1963-7
Rubinstein, Artur Barenboim / London PO RCA 1975
Schnabel, Artur Sargent / London SO, London PO Arabesque, Naxos 1932-5
Schiff, Andras Haitink / Dresden Staatskapelle Teldec 1990's
Serkin, Rudolf Ormandy / Philadelphia Orch. Columbia LPs 1950-5
Serkin, Rudolf Bernstein / NY PO (3,5);  Ormandy / Philadelphia (1,2,4) Columbia LPs 1963-5
Serkin, Rudolf Kubelik / Bavarian Radio Sym. (Live in Munich) Orfeo CDs 1977 Choral Fantasy op.80
Serkin, Rudolf Ozawa / Boston SO Telarc 1980's Choral Fantasy op.80
Sherman, Rusell Vaclav Neumann / Czech PO Pro-Arte
Sherman, Rusell James Bolle / Monadnock Festival Orch. (live, New Hampshire) G.M. Recordings 2000
Solomon Menges, Cluytens / Philharmonia Orch.  (mono) Testament (orig. EMI) 1950's
Sonoda, Takahiro Heiichiro OHYAMA / Kyusyu Symphony orchestra Evica 1998-200 Triple Concerto
Stancul, Jasminka Rahbari / Slovak & Belgian Radio Orchestras Koch Discover 1993
Sugitani, Shoko Oskamp / Berlin Symphony Orch. (incl. Violin con. Transc.) Brilliant Classics 1993-4
Tan, Melvyn Norrington / London Classical Players EMI 1980's Choral Fantasy op.80
Uchida, Mitsuko Sanderling / Concertgebouw Orch. Philips 1994-8
Vered, Ilana Kord / Warsaw PO Pro-Arte 1993
Vladar, Stefan Wordsworth / Capella Istropolitana Naxos 1988
Vracheva, Galina Roman Kofman / Kiev Chamber Orch.  ("improvised cadenzas") Arts 47354-2 1995 Choral Fantasy op.80
Weissenberg, Alexis Karajan / Berlin PO EMI 1970's
Willems, Gerard Antony Walker / Sinfonia Australis ABC 2003
Yokoyama, Yukio ?? JPN-SICC-10024 (SACD) c.2004
Zacharias, Christian Vonk / Dresden Staatskapelle, Masur / Leipzig Gewandhaus EMI 1990's Triple Concerto
Zacharias, Christian Armin Jordan / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Cascavelle 1994?
Zimerman, Krystian Bernstein (3-5), Zimerman (1-2) / Vienna PO DG (CD & VIDEO versions) 1989
Projected Cycles:
Olli Mustonen (cond. From Keyboard, with Tapiol Sinfonietta) on Ondine. 1,2, and Violin Concerto arrangement for piano recorded.
Ronald Brautigam, Andrew Parrott / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (BIS Records)
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