Now firmly established as a leading international pianist, Ll欧r Williams performs Beethoven, a composer for whom he has established a particular affinity. The Fourth Piano Concerto is remarkable for its combination of outer tenderness and underlying intensity, continually shifting in mood from melancholy to heroic, anguished to whimsical. Beethoven鈥檚 influence is all too evident in Brahma鈥檚 last and greatest symphony, a work of tremendous power and passion, not to mention immense beauty.