Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor

"Ozawa and Serkin have turned in one of the most satisfying musical performances in Telarc's catalog...The recording is also one of Telarc's best..."
-- Stereophile

"Telarc has provided the pianist a clean, spacious, well-balanced sound worthy of his talents. Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have this familiar music at their fingertips, and their accompaniment is entirely sympathetic and splendidly played."
-- Palladium-Times

"The Emperor, like all of Telarc's recordings-LPs as well as CDs-is digital in all phases, and reproduction of Beethoven's thundering crescendos and delicate, lingering passages is technically superb."
-- Florida Times-Union

In 1982, this recording, which teamed Rudolf Serkin, one of the greatest pianists and Beethoven interpreters in the world, with a first-class orchestra and renowned conductor, was released as a digital LP.

Recorded in the beautiful acoustic of Boston's Symphony Hall, it was hailed as "extraordinary" by critics, for both performance and quality of recorded sound.

In 1983, Telarc re-released the recording on CD, and again it received accolades from reviewers, who called it "a marriage made in heaven," and "one of the best classical releases on CD to date."


Seiji Ozawa is now in his twenty-second season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ozawa became the BSO's thirteenth music director in 1973 after a year as music adviser. His tenure with the Boston Symphony is the longest of any music director currently active with an American orchestra. In his more than two decades as music director, Mr. Ozawa has maintained the orchestra's distinguished reputation both at home and abroad with concerts at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, on tours to Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, China and South America-an across the United States-including regular concerts in New York. Mr. Ozawa has upheld the BSO's commitment to new music through the commissioning of new works, including a series of centennial commissions marking the orchestra's hundredth birthday in 1981, and a series of works celebrating the fiftieth anniversary in 1990 of the Tanglewood Music Center, the orchestra's summer training program for young musicians. In addition, he has recorded more than 130 works with the orchestra, representing more than fifty different composers on ten labels.