MARILINA TZELEPI : Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 5 - 'Emperor' - Rondo

Marilina Tzelepi is playing the half of the 2nd and the 3rd part from Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto in A -flat major, op 73 , with the Symphonic Orchestra of Athens Community , under the direction of Eleftherios Kalkanis. The concerto was written between 1809 in Vienna, and was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven's patron and pupil. The first performance took place on 28 November 1811 at the Theater of Gewandhaus in Leipzig under conductor Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, the soloist being Friedrich Schneider. On 12 February 1812, Carl Czerny, another student of Beethoven's, gave the Vienna debut of this work. The epithet of Emperor for this concerto was not Beethoven's own but was coined by Johann Baptist Cramer, the English publisher of the concerto . . .