JONATHAN BISS concludes his Beethoven/5 commissioning project with this upcoming final installment, bringing to a close one of the most ambitious and innovative Beethoven release series of the 21st century.

Volume 5 of the series pairs Beethoven’s Concerto No.3 in C minor with Caroline Shaw’s Watermark, a reimagination of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto through both direct quotation and subtle reflections of its harmonic language, creating a dialogue between past and present. Shaw “imagines Beethoven imagining it, and in doing so, creates something wholly original.”