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Are these Beethoven’s cadenzas?

Are these Beethoven’s cadenzas?

Isabelle Faust plays a wonderfully introspective ac count of the Beethoven violin concerto with, near the end of the first movement, a solo cadenza that may have been written by Beethoven.

Except it’s not etnirely solo. Faust plays a little riff with the percussionist in what sounds like an anticipation of the finale of the 9th symphony.

See what you think.

Some thoughts from Isabelle:

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