Rudolf Serkin Performs Beethoven
Historic Performances • 20-Sep-1978
Rudolf Serkin, one of the most revered Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century, joins then Music Director Zubin Mehta in a 1978 performance of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto.
BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, Emperor (1809)
1. Allegro
2. Adagio un poco moto
3. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
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