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DiscountDelight - Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
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List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $12.93
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028944226928
Label: Philips
Manufacturer: Philips
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Philips
Release Date: 1994-04-12
Studio: Philips
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Summary: Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 Alfred Brendel
Comment: Nice interpretation of Mozart's piano concerto.
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Summary: Mozart's great piano concertos, Vol 1 and Vol 2
Comment: We love Mozart. Especially his piano concertos. We purchased these volumes, because we wore out our cassette tapes.
Mozart piano concertos performed by Arthur Brendel and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, It does not get much better than that. 5 hours of music as a very reasonable price!
I even ordered a second set to give to a friend.
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Summary: great pianist, great price, bad track listing
Comment: Alfred Brendel is one of the world's most famous pianists, but not for reasons that make Argerich, Paderewski, or Rubinstein famous. Brendel is an expert both artistically and technically but he is not given to highly individualistic interpretations that rattle purists and create controversy. In other words, Brendel is a highly reliable pianist. Like Murray Perahia, there are no let downs in his recorded performances. For this and the price, no one should pass up this 2 disc recording.
The only downside is the recording's track listing. Piano Concerto No. 23 is split: its first movement is in the first disc while its last two movements are in the second. Bewildering especially since the piano concertos are not sequenced chronologically. And the insert doesn't help. It does not explain the track arrangement (is it by the year of recording? by importance in Mozart's ouvre?). Nonetheless, there it is, Piano Concerto No. 23 separated into two cds. Why this has to be is difficult to understand. The first movement, allegro, is 11.04 minutes long; in the second disc, a one movement rondo, Rondo in A, KV 386, is 8.32 minutes long. Why wasn't this rondo placed in the first disc to allow a seamless playing of Piano Concerto No. 23?
This is annoying if your player does not support multiple disc playing. I bought this 2 cd set specifically for Piano Concerto No. 23, whose second movement I love. It is one of the most sublime of piano adagios, up there with the second movements of Chopin no. 1, Rachmaninoff no. 2, Shostakovich no. 2. And I bought it specifically for Brendel's performance with the ASMITF, conducted by Neville Marriner. Brendel really makes the piano weep here. His evocations of a human's cycle of grief and redemption make the performance definitive for Piano Concerto No. 23. If the split won't bother you, do yourself a favor and get a copy.
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Summary: Extremely Disappointed...Not Recommended
Comment: Although all the other reviews simply rave about this 2 CD set, and "This CD set was awarded a rosette by the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs", I just listened to both CDS. Very very disappointed. The music is very bland, no passion, very passive. I could not believe what I was hearing. Anytime I see ASMITF as the orchestra playing Mozart, I usually am pleased..but this time I was not. I am sticking with Mitsuko Uchida (pianist) and Mr. Tate (conductor)...for her playing of the Mozart concertos...
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Summary: Great Music
Comment: I was pleasantly surprised when I received my CD of great piano concertos by Mozart. Although I had listed to the sample selections on Amazon.com, the entire concertos were great. The interaction of the orchestra with the piano were blended perfectly. Mozart takes one little theme & develops it into a beautiful piece of music. Being a piano player myself, it is especially amazing to hear the complexity and dexterity of Alfred Brendel.
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