The soloist’s crown is certainly usurped at the end of the first movement and I missed the cushioned “plumf” of the basses in the Adagio, so well captured by the Philharmonia under Leopold Ludwig ...

Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...