Ludwig van Beethoven Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra - Beethoven Piano Concerto No5 (3 tracks) +Album Reviews +Used CD available for Swap
| 05/04/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "The Fifth Concerto, the Emperor, remains the most popular, and has been recorded innumerable times. First choice for me is perhaps Murray Perahia on Sony. Wonderful playing, very much from the eighteenth century, and a finale that really sparkles, but which does not lack power. Beautiful sound too, but rather short measure.I understand why some like the Emperor to be played in a style akin to Tchaikovsky's First Concerto, in a grand romantic style (e.g. as Horowitz used to play it). I also used to like this approach, but Perahia's is more stylistically id...
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