Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" by Edwin Fischer 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) bit.ly/3txKy5A Apple Music (Lossless) apple.co/409btkE 🎧 Tidal (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/46zB749 Deezer (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/3s1cWg7 🎧 Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) amzn.to/3Q6f7qG Spotify (mp3) spoti.fi/3M5ZJtj 🎧 Idagio (Hi-Fi) (soon) KZfaq Music (mp4) bit.ly/3M37uQv 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, Soundcloud, QQ音乐, LineMusic, AWA日本… Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat Major, Op. 73 ''Emperor'' 00:00 I. Allegro (Remastered 2023, London 1951) 20:40 II. Adagio un poco mosso (Remastered 2023, Version 1951) 28:32 III. Rondo, Allegro ma non troppo (Remastered 2023, London 1951) Piano: Edwin Fischer Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler Recorded in 1951, at London New mastering in 2023 by Ab for CMRR 🔊 Discover our new website: www.classicalmusicreference.com/ 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : bit.ly/370zcMg 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : spoti.fi/3016eVr ❤ If you like CMRR content, please consider membership at our Patreon or Tipeee page. Thank you :) www.patreon.com/cmrr // en.tipeee.com/cmrr The Fischer/Furtwängler cooperation has quite simply produced one of the greatest concerto recordings in history. One might have thought that Furtwängler's expressive power and dramatic tension would be incompatible with Fischer's poetic, humane playing, but this is not the case. The inner effervescence of both masters results in a palpable, unheard-of emotion. The two artists share a common bond: an extraordinary perception of music that enables them to emerge from the excesses of a poorly assimilated post-romanticism and rediscover the central nerve of the true romantic tradition, that ability to translate the expression of the most vivid and ardent feelings with a form of "elegance and moral modesty". Such a recording is to be analyzed and meditated on, bar by bar, second by second. The two merge wonderfully, to Beethoven's great glory. Energetic, heroic, triumphant... Beethoven's last piano concerto is also his most famous. Beethoven composed his Piano Concerto No. 5 in 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Residing in Vienna, he witnessed the clashes between the French and Austrian armies during the composition. "What an exhausting and devastating life around me; nothing but drums, cannons, human misery of every kind", writes Beethoven, yet despite the din of battle, Beethoven retains his creative verve and composes this brilliant concerto, in which arpeggios, trills and scales surge across the keyboard. This Concerto No. 5 was nicknamed "Emperor" after its composer's death. In Beethoven's eyes, it was the "Great Concerto". From the outset, the tone is warlike, frank and assertive. The composer himself notes a series of terms in the score sketches ("victory", "battle", "attack"...). This dazzling aspect is reinforced by the key of E-flat major (that of the Eroica Symphony) and by the imposing first movement, some twenty minutes long. Premiered on November 28, 1811, the Concerto appears in many respects to be a work of accomplishment, even if the public of the time considered it too complicated. After the Emperor, Beethoven sketched out a sixth concerto, but the work remained unfinished. Leon Plantinga : "The truth, of course, is that this concerto has no identifiable connection with any emperor. The symbolism here, as in all substantial music, is much subtler, both richer and more diffuse than the simple property of reporting on an emperor, an army, a battle, or even battles or military actions in general. Any invocation of such things in this music must be seen as metaphorical: the military stakes, that constant presence in Beethoven's world, may have inspired him (and now us) to a more general human struggle, and his heroic postures are about a nobility of character necessary to prevail." Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 by Edwin Fischer 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) bit.ly/45DSorG Tidal (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/46wgshw 🎧 Deezer (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/3Q1rzIm Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) amzn.to/3FpwgqE 🎧 Spotify (mp3) spoti.fi/3rZmqZf KZfaq Music (mp4) bit.ly/3M7wbf0 🎧 Apple Music (Lossless) - Idagio (Hi-Fi) (soon) 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, Soundcloud, QQ音乐, LineMusic, AWA日本…

Es ist und bleibt die beste Einspielung dieses Konzerts. Der 2. Satz wird mit einer unkünstelten Selbstverständlichkeit und Poesie dargeboten, wie sie kein anderer Interpret erreicht hat.

The Fischer/Furtwängler cooperation has quite simply produced one of the greatest concerto recordings in history. One might have thought that Furtwängler's expressive power and dramatic tension would be incompatible with Fischer's poetic, humane playing, but this is not the case. The inner effervescence of both masters results in a palpable, unheard-of emotion. The two artists share a common bond: an extraordinary perception of music that enables them to emerge from the excesses of a poorly assimilated post-romanticism and rediscover the central nerve of the true romantic tradition, that ability to translate the expression of the most vivid and ardent feelings with a form of "elegance and moral modesty". Such a recording is to be analyzed and meditated on, bar by bar, second by second. The two merge wonderfully, to Beethoven's great glory. Energetic, heroic, triumphant... Beethoven's last piano concerto is also his most famous. Beethoven composed his Piano Concerto No. 5 in 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Residing in Vienna, he witnessed the clashes between the French and Austrian armies during the composition. "What an exhausting and devastating life around me; nothing but drums, cannons, human misery of every kind", writes Beethoven, yet despite the din of battle, Beethoven retains his creative verve and composes this brilliant concerto, in which arpeggios, trills and scales surge across the keyboard. This Concerto No. 5 was nicknamed "Emperor" after its composer's death. In Beethoven's eyes, it was the "Great Concerto". From the outset, the tone is warlike, frank and assertive. The composer himself notes a series of terms in the score sketches ("victory", "battle", "attack"...). This dazzling aspect is reinforced by the key of E-flat major (that of the Eroica Symphony) and by the imposing first movement, some twenty minutes long. Premiered on November 28, 1811, the Concerto appears in many respects to be a work of accomplishment, even if the public of the time considered it too complicated. After the Emperor, Beethoven sketched out a sixth concerto, but the work remained unfinished. Leon Plantinga : "The truth, of course, is that this concerto has no identifiable connection with any emperor. The symbolism here, as in all substantial music, is much subtler, both richer and more diffuse than the simple property of reporting on an emperor, an army, a battle, or even battles or military actions in general. Any invocation of such things in this music must be seen as metaphorical: the military stakes, that constant presence in Beethoven's world, may have inspired him (and now us) to a more general human struggle, and his heroic postures are about a nobility of character necessary to prevail." Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 by Edwin Fischer 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) bit.ly/45DSorG Tidal (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/46wgshw 🎧 Deezer (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/3Q1rzIm Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) amzn.to/3FpwgqE 🎧 Spotify (mp3) spoti.fi/3rZmqZf KZfaq Music (mp4) bit.ly/3M7wbf0 🎧 Apple Music (Lossless) - Idagio (Hi-Fi) (soon) 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, Soundcloud, QQ音乐, LineMusic, AWA日本…

Perfect sound for the 40's. Thank you so much for this interpretation by two geniuses

18:09 is one of my favourite moments in all of Beethoven

A profound understanding of tempo. The pulse serves the best musical effect all the time in every detail.

One of the best and most inspired performances of this piece ever recorded. Fischer plays magnificently. A true meeting of minds between soloist, conductor and orchestra. No maestro was a better accompanist than Furtwängler. Beautifully remastered. Many thanks.

Excelsior, bellisimo , es estar sintiendo el profundo espiritu del gran Beethoven por el recorrido de sus partituras que brotan de su alma, gracias maestro Edwin.

These days, everything is an instant classic. THIS is actually a classic. In the original meaning of the term. Thanks for posting this.

masterpiece

Histórico registro 👏Gracias por mejorar el sonido y compartir. Saludos desde Colombia. 🤗

선선한 가을밤에 듣는 베토벤, 음악과 함께 자세한 설명까지 읽다보니 음악에 더 빠져들게 됩니다. 오늘도 감사드립니다❤

Thank you posting this great masterpiece concerto, I appreciate..

L'une des 3 ou 4 plus grandes versions de l'empereur avec aussi Arrau/ Davis ou Brendel/ Rattle, sublime version

Great one. Thank you. Please consider Piano Concert No. 4, Berlin Philharmonic, 1943. Conrad Hansen and, of course, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting.

Bravissimo!!!❤❤❤👋👋👋👋👋

Iconic!

Super. TY

We are living imperfect life, otherwise, we will find no one complains and will find no one suffers !!!!! 😎🎹🎹🎵🎵

Grazie

I read once that Furtwangler said that if you can't accompany, you can't conduct. I wonder whether this recording disuaded many others from recording this work?

I find it so humanizing and refreshing when you hear the occasional wrong note in opening bars of the third movement of this piece

I'm not sure I like the remastered version better, anyone else prefer the non remastered version? This new one sounds a bit boomy.

❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

The meany Mozart tryed to poison him but failed. Just made him deaf. It's what an average public-schooled teenager knows about classical music.