Great Pianists on Film, Introduced by Michael Kimmelman

Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Rudolf Serkin, Sonata in E major, Op. 109 (1987)
Claudio Arrau, Sonata in C minor, Op. 111 (1970)
Wilhelm Backhaus, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Karl Böhm) (1967)

Two of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the last century, Rudolf Serkin and Claudio Arrau, bring their singular gifts to the sonatas, while the legendary Wilhelm Backhaus performs the towering Fourth Piano Concerto with Karl Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic.