- Audio CD (Feb 5 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: MD&G Records
- ASIN: B00112A6Q4
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3.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the better recordings you can get for sound and/or performance, Oct 25 2009
By John Grabowski - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cons Pno (Audio CD)
These are some of the best-sounding Mozart piano concerti I've ever heard--perfectly-balanced and natural-sounding. MDG does its usual excellent job--is there a company out there making better-sounding recordings today? I doubt it. The only slight downside is I would like a little more personality from Zacharias, which perhaps strives sometimes to be too genial. The slow movement of K. 453 doesn't plumb the depths like it perhaps could--for that you have to get my favorite recording--Pires/Abbado live on DG. But these are very fine recordings, with particularly clear and beautifully-textured accompaniments by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. (I have heard them in performance, and this is very much what they sound like.) While this is not HIP pure they have benefitted from some of the clarity the movement has introduced. I would perhaps like a slightly dryer sound at times, and a bit more distance from the mike, but that's a personal presence and won't bother most other people. Just check out the sound samples provided to hear how well-recorded and well-played these pieces are. Recommended, even if you already have many other performances of these works on your shelf.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sparkling Christan Zacharias and his Lausanne Chamber Orchestra play Mozart, April 26 2010
By P. Adrian "Adrian" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Cons Pno (Audio CD)
Christian Zacharias - as soloist and conductor - along with his players from Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne simply shine in these Mozart piano concertos (K 453 & K 456,) released as the volume No.3 in a series that aims to offer - step by step, by issuing a volume per year - a new complete recorded cycle. A cycle for the XXI century, entirely signed by these wonderful musicians!If I would be urged to name the reserved repertory for Zacharias, his most suitable stylistic area, then two composers come instantly in my mind: Scarlatti and Mozart. After a few minutes of thinking, the list could be, of course, enlarged, but one can barely imagine someone among the living pianists to challenge Zacharias's artistry in Mozart and Scarlatti. The accomplished Mozartian Alfred Brendel retired in 2008 from the international concert platform...
Yet, there are in the market several other valuable versions of the complete (or almost complete) Mozart concerti - Brendel, Buchbinder, Perahia, Uchida - the new Zacharias-cycle stands in the first row of my preference up to this moment (five volumes already, covering 12 out of 27 concertos). To name but a few reasons that favours Zacharias: his exquisite playing with a special insight for small structures, his tireless disposal for expressing the finest details (listen for example, the slow movement of the G major concerto on this disc), his elegant and intelligent pure classical phrasing rather making the keyboard `sing', his spontaneity, and - last, but not least - his fresh reading of old and well-known masterpieces. The main lines are always constructed seamlessly out of the small structures (see, in this respect, the joyful finale of the same G major concerto), with a refined sense of musical truth. Everything is clear and clean.
This CD contains all these interpretive qualities of Christian Zacharias, the vivid accompaniment of his Swiss orchestra, plus a gorgeous recorded sound mastered by the MDG technicians. Truly recommended!
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worthless, May 5 2008
By Doreen Appleton - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cons Pno (Audio CD)
Worthless, garbage, don't buy! The pretentious high-end SACD company, MDG, brags about the authenticity of the sound. But the piano is poorly microphoned and sounds tepid and faraway. It's amazing how often these sound-conscious recording companies produce garbage. They may have the equipment, but they don't have the ears. Don't waste your money!
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