Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor - Murray Perahia, Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'
Murray Perahia
Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Recorded: 1986

You can spend a lifetime on a masterpiece, but it's not a question of perfection, it's a question of deepening. And to do that, you need other experience.

Murray Perahia

Simon Rattle tells the story of how he and Haitink were sitting in a Covent Garden box at a closed Kleiber rehearsal of Otello. When it ended, Haitink turned to Rattle and said: "Well, I don't know about you, but I think that my studies in this art have only just begun."
"Yes, that is true," he says now (Haitink). "I'm not ashamed of saying that. When I have listened to Kleiber, I always think, 'My God, he knows his scores so well.' He is a fanatic. He looks at every manuscript and he will dig out every note, every detail, every query." For the young Haitink, though, the key figure was Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Gramophone Magazine : Recommended Recording for Beethoven's Concerto for Piano No.5 'Emperor'

BBC Radio 3 : Building a Library Recommendation

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01. Allegro [0:20:33.65]
02. Adagio un poco moto [0:08:30.12]
03. Rondo - Allegro [0:09:43.20]

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