Bruce Hunter quoting a Houston review:

>Beethoven wrote the concerto in 1792 as an exercise under Haydn
>and revised the second movement the following year.

One little (and pedant) remark: if Beethoven wrote in 1792 it's not very
likely that it was 'an exercise under Haydn', since he lived in Bonn
until November 1792.  Then he moved to Vienna and became Haydn's pupil.
So only the revision of the second movement could have been an exercise
under Haydn.

>"It's a little conventional, but it has elements of the Beethoven
>to come," he said.

A mild opinion.  Like the Bonn elector I'm not impressed.  Yet the cd
surely is a collector's item, of course.

Joyce Maier
www.ademu.com/Beethoven