Since you are interested in Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat 'Emperor' / Choral Fantasia in C minor, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4 / Piano sonatas 14 ‘Moonlight' & 31 Dejan Lazic (piano) / Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (leader) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "His Moonlight Sonata is clean, austere and breathtakingly beautiful." (The Guardian) |
W.A. MOZART
Concertos for Two and Three Pianos Ronald Brautigam and Alexei Lubimov (fortepianos) / Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Manfred Huss (direction and fortepiano) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "In short, this CD is a delight from begin to end. It will make you want to see and hear the two pieces performed live because only then can one fully enjoy the virtuosic playfulness and beauty of the musical interchange between the two pianos in the... |
BEETHOVEN
Complete works for solo piano, Vol.4 (Incls Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight') Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "Ronald Brautigam’s stimulating Beethoven sonata traversal continues apace with Volume 4. Judging by various reviews and online forums, it appears to be winning many new friends...it is, quite simply, shaping up to be one of the finest cycles of... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos WoO. 4 & No. 2 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Ronald Brautigam releases his second disc of Beethoven's Piano Concertos - this time offering a youthfully fresh Concerto No. 2 which was actually conceived long before the First Piano Concerto. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 1 (Includes the Pathatique Sonata) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Sep/2004 ] "The playing is riveting. Brautigam draws out the "Pathetique" sonata's first-movement introduction with plenty of rhetorical emphasis yet keeps the dotted rhythms in sharp focus...Whether in SACD surround-sound or conventional two-channel stereo... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 3 (Sonatas Nos 4 - 7) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] 'could be a Beethoven piano-sonata cycle that challenges the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments, a stylistic paradigm shift.' (Fanfare on Vol 1) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 5 (Sonatas Nos 16 - 18) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2007 ] "I love this disc and it’s hardly been out of the player since it arrived...I’ve said in the past that it feels as if the composer were in the room with you, and looking at the booklet photograph of Brautigam, he’s even beginning to resemble the... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 6 (Sonatas Nos 21 - 25 incls 'Appassionata') Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "Brautigam's Beethoven is more than just a compelling case for period pianos" (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Dec 2008) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Works Vol. 7 (Sonatas Nos 26, 27 & 29 incls “Hammerklavier”) Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "… a fine recital, and the most impressive instalment so far in Brautigam's Beethoven cycle. The warm-sounding reproduction Graf piano from around 1819 has been very well recorded." BBC Music Magazine, November 2009 ***** |
BEETHOVEN
Three Sonatas, WoO47 (‘Kurfürsten Sonatas’) / 2 Sätze einer Sonatine, WoO50 / 2 Leichte Sonatinen / ‘Leichte Sonate’, WoO51 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] 'Brautigam has more to say about the music than any recent cycle recorded on modern instruments… An outstanding disc of an outstanding series.' |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 12 / Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in A Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano) / Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "What's impressive about [Brautigam's] playing is not just its sprightliness, but also its expressive character...If you prefer your Mozart played on period instruments, you're unlikely to find better performances than these." (BBC Music) |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Plays Scriabin (Incls Sonatas Nos 2, 5 & 9) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "Yevgeny Sudbin here miraculously combines the volcanic intensity of Vladimir Horowitz with the cat-and-mouse tonal reflexes of Mikhail Pletnev. The engineering BIS provides for Sudbin is astonishing lifelike throughout, especially in surround... |