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The two previous recordings in this survey of Beethoven's piano concertos from

Boris Giltburg with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko
have received a markedly mixed response from Gramophone's reviewers. In his
review of Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2, Jed Distler wrote 'Boris Giltburg’s polished

and cultivated pianism shines in the crystalline scales of the First
Concerto’s Allegro and in how he shapes his solo in the development section

(starting at 7'02") so that the phrases sweetly sing over the bar lines.' (Read the
review).

Patrick Rucker, in his review of Piano Concerto No 5, was underwhelmed, saying

that it featured 'one of the more foursquare, docile, even diffident readings of the solo
part I’ve encountered.' (Read the review).