Ferdinand Ries: Piano Concerto no. 4 in C minor, Op. 115

Ferdinand Ries - Piano Concerto no 4 in C minor, Op. 115 Christopher Hinterhuber(piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Uwe Grodd (conductor) “Ferdinand Ries was a fine pianist and prolific composer, leaving nearly 180 works, including piano concertos, symphonies, operas, oratorios, chamber music and solo piano pieces. The fourteen works for piano and orchestra of Ferdinand Ries stand alongside those of Hummel as the most important of their kind from the early decades of the 19th Century. As one of Beethoven’s closest associates, his views on the composer - collated in a book he published with Franz Wegeler in 1838 - are hugely reliable, indeed invaluable.”