If Seymour Lipkin had known Beethoven personally, he could not be any closer to the composer’s work than his long piano career has taken him. This fact alone makes Lipkin the consummate choice to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Maestro Piotr Gajewski and the National Philharmonic this weekend at the Music Center at Strathmore. “I’ve played all the sonatas, all the concertos, all the chamber music — violin sonatas, cello sonatas, trios … everything!” he said.

Lipkin is not bragging; it is merely fact. And somehow, given this delightfully expressed obsession with the work, it is impossible not to believe him when he says, “There isn’t a note [Beethoven] wrote that isn’t interesting.”

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