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Now other than the truly awful Wellington's Victory Battle Symphony.

Beethoven's Triple Concerto might be his most heavily criticized work.

Musicians look down on it, critics always complain about it, conductors hate conducting it,

orchestral musicians hate playing it, and yet it still gets performed fairly regularly,

especially when an orchestra can get three star names together to perform it. But I'm here today, thanks to

Brooke, who sponsored today's show on Patreon, to say that I think all of this criticism of this

much maligned piece is pretty unfair.

I love the Beethoven Triple Concerto and I think I can convince you too as well.

That's not to say the piece doesn't have problems that need to be managed,

like an impossibly difficult cello part, a strangely difficult piano part

that nevertheless is thought to be extremely easy, an orchestra part that sometimes falls

into the background so thoroughly that it can seem as if it's only a piano trio on stage, and perhaps most difficult,

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