Rudolf Buchbinder is one of the legendary interpreters of our time. The authority of a career spanning more than 60 years is uniquely combined with wit and spontaneity in his piano playing. Tradition and innovation, faithfulness and freedom, authenticity and openness to the world merge in his interpretation of the great piano literature.

He is regarded as a benchmark, particularly as an interpreter of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. With the BUCHBINDER:BEETHOVEN edition, Deutsche Grammophon released a complete recording of the 32 piano sonatas and the five piano concertos in the fall of 2021 in the run-up to Buchbinder's 75th birthday, thus creating a sounding monument to two outstanding Buchbinder-Beethoven cycles of recent times. At the 2014 Salzburg Festival, Buchbinder was the first pianist to play all of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas within one festival summer. The Salzburg cycle was recorded live for DVD (Unitel) and is now also available on nine CDs.

The sensational cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven's five piano concertos was created in the 2019/20 concert season at the Vienna Musikverein. To mark its 150th anniversary, the Vienna Musikverein gave a single pianist, Rudolf Buchbinder, the honor of performing all five of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano concertos in a specially created series for the first time in the history of the world-famous concert hall. Buchbinder's partners were the Gewand­hausorchester Leipzig under Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons, the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Munich Philharmonic and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under their chief conductors Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev and Christian Thielemann. All concerts were recorded live.