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The Emperor's New Clothes
Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, known as the ' Emperor', sounds very different in modern performances compared with those of Beethoven's time. Orchestral instruments and layouts have changed and many misunderstandings have arisen through 19th-century editorial attitudes.
Kenneth van Barthold shows how and why performance styles have changed, and, with the London Classical Players and using period instruments, performs two movements of the ' Emperor ' as they might have sounded in Beethoven's time, with and Lighting FRED WRIGHT Sound ANTHONY PHILPOT Producer DAVID BUCKTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth van Barthold
Unknown:
Fred Wright
Unknown:
Anthony Philpot
Producer:
David Buckton
conductor:
Roger Norrington
concert master:
John Holloway

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