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going to be learning beethoven's emperor concerto, what are some things to look out for, and is there any really great recordings of it i currently have horowitz and perahai recordings is there any better?

Serkin/Bernstein

If you can't get that one, then listen to

Serkin/Bernstein

and if that doesn't work out, listen to

Serkin/Bernstein.


Can't recomend it enough.

Reviews from Amazon.com: (just the titles)

"After over forty years, it's still the best"

"excellent remastering of two great performances--incomparable"

"The Second Best"
("Excellent. But Serkin's performance of the Emperor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Eric Leinsdorf conducting, was (in Cole Porter's phrase) the top.")

"Best Emperor that I have heard so far"

"THE BEST!"

....

"1 Star -- Serkin at his foot-stomping, insensitive worst"

[there's one in every crowd... ]

hmm i wonder if serkin/bernstein is good? ha thanks

Give the Aimard/Harnoncourt a try

fischer/furtwängler 1951

what about the man with the fold up chair glenn gould

I think that the early Alfred Brendel recording is unbeatable. For that matter, I think all of his early Beethoven concerto recordings are unbeatable.

I have the Serkin/Ozawa and its amazing. Serkin definitely has one of the better interpretations of Beethoven that I've heard.

Katz/Barbirolli
Egorov/Sawallisch

Has everybody forgotten the legendary Fleisher/Szell recordings? They are unbelievable.
PS: I'm learning this concerto, too. IMO, the most important thing to watch out for is RELAXATION, because otherwise, you won't be able to make it through even the 1st movement. Second thing is time.

as i learn thie peice anything i should worry about?