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