Tim Mahon, on Beethoven's 6th Piano Concerto:

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the 6th piano concerto a reworking of
>the Violin Concerto? And hasn't there just been a recording released? If
>so, who completed it?

Old Ludwig himself arranged the Violin Concerto for Piano, as Op.  61a (Op.
61 is of course the Vn Con).  The solo part was re-written and new cadenzas
added, but the orchestration is the same (I checked Grove's and my latest
Schwann [plug plug]).

There are at least 5 recordings.  They tend to show up on "Unknown
Beethoven" discs, with the early Piano Concerto WoO 4 and the like.  I just
went through the entire Beethoven section of Schwann and cleaned up all the
titles, so all this is fresh in my mind.  You can't imagine how many
folksong settings he wrote.  (What a pain.)

BTW, Does anyone know the 'Equale for 4 Trombones, WoO 30'? I am terribly
curious what LvB does with 4 brass instruments alone, and I've never heard
it.  Surely -someone- on the List has the Beethoven Box on DG?

Bob K, 1 week left at Schwann