[ctemkin]

Mackerras did a few with the Scottish Chamber Orch, which are excellent. Clear textures and good momentum on #38, which is sheer operatic.
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+1. Highly recommend.

 

[perhapss]

  or Mackerras Mozart with Prague Chamber or James Levine with VPO or Christopher Hogwood? ir Travor Pinnock with English concert...

 
 
Those are all very fine and very different sets.

 

[CanadianMaestro]

   
 
Those are all very fine and very different sets.

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I think this is certainly one of the best Mozart cycles ever recorded:
 

 

[jegnyc]

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I think this is certainly one of the best Mozart cycles ever recorded:

I really enjoy Arrau's Beethoven cycle. Sound quality is very good as well. For the Mozart sonatas I have Uchida.

 

[jegnyc]

Those are all very fine and very different sets.

Szell is my imprint version of Nos. 35, 39, 40 and 41. An important early step in my appreciation of classical. I just ordered the most remastering from CDJapan (along with the SACD set of his Beethoven). Nothing is going to turn these into audiophile treasures, but I expect improvements.

 

[Quinto]

 
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I think this is certainly one of the best Mozart cycles ever recorded:
 

Mozart for real man

 

 

[CanadianMaestro]

I really enjoy Arrau's Beethoven cycle. Sound quality is very good as well. For the Mozart sonatas I have Uchida.

Uchida certainly is tops as well. Try also Walter Klien (an Austrian) and Maria Joao Pires.

 

[Quinto]

Uchida's Mozart is nice but a bit to light for me, the feminine part of Amadeus is a bit overdone, many pianists do this, that's why I like Arrau's Mozart so much (& Gould's but 4 diff reason)

 

[CanadianMaestro]

Very true.
 
I think Gould mangles Mozart -- a bit like Tim Burton at the keyboard.

 
 
Eschenbach gives very Germanic renditions.

 

[gerelmx1986]

  Very true.
 
I think Gould mangles Mozart -- a bit like Tim Burton at the keyboard.

 
 
Eschenbach gives very Germanic renditions.

And what about Ulchida? I like her rendition of the piano sonata No. 10 i think

 

[Quinto]

  Very true.
 
I think Gould mangles Mozart -- a bit like Tim Burton at the keyboard.

 
 
Eschenbach gives very Germanic renditions.

For me Gould's Mozart is really more of a critical commentary on a composer who many feel is saint like untouchable..me, Im an atheist

 
Eschenbach I like very much, but doesn't get many listening hours though..

 

[Quinto]

 
And what about Ulchida? I like her rendition of the piano sonata No. 10 i think

Although I have great respect for her as a person and her play, it's a bit to right handed for my taste, same with her Schubert.. I do listen to her Schubert when I'm in the mood for Schubbie 'light'
 
In other words, I like some more bass, preferably more melodic then harmonic..counterpoint like (but hey, I'm a Gould nut, what do I know

)

 

[CanadianMaestro]

 
For me Gould's Mozart is really more of a critical commentary on a composer who many feel is saint like untouchable..me, Im an atheist

 
 

Kinda ironic -- Gould made his name as a Bach interpreter, and Bach was very religious.....it permeates Bach's music. 

 
Maybe not his piano pieces that much.

 

[jegnyc]

 
Although I have great respect for her as a person and her play, it's a bit to right handed for my taste, same with her Schubert.. I do listen to her Schubert when I'm in the mood for Schubbie 'light'
 
In other words, I like some more bass, preferably more melodic then harmonic..counterpoint like (but hey, I'm a Gould nut, what do I know

)

And I don't particularly care for her Schubert.  In fact I like her Mozart and her Berg, but not so much in between.  (Don't know her Debussy, however.)
 
Ho about the Mozart concertos?  Any other fans of Perahia?

 

[Quinto]

  Kinda ironic -- Gould made his name as a Bach interpreter, and Bach was very religious.....it permeates Bach's music. 

 
Maybe not his piano pieces that much.

Not ironic at all, let's call it a state of awe..I have that all the time my friend, it's like a tic