[saint.panda]

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Originally Posted by calaf check the price on amazon.fr http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASI...932395-3808167 how can they make any money out of this? If I hadn't exhasted my monthly budget (and then some ) on $30 a pop Bach Cantatas CDs and Wagner's DVDs I'd go for it. Even if you ever listen only to 1/3 of it, it would be a bargain!

Now I can't decide which 170 CD set I should go for.

 

[Masolino]

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Originally Posted by Bunnyears The Divertimento for String Trio in E flat major K. 563 is one of my favorite Mozart pieces. For a budget choice, the recording with Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kaskashian and Gidon Kremer can't be beat. For a little more money you can get Arthur Grumiaux's recording in either the Phillips Complete Mozart series or their Trio Cds which puts with the complete String Quintets. You can't go wrong with any of these.

I have two recordings of this great trio on period strings. The Sony recording of L'Archibudelli comes also with three trio transcription of preludes (Mozart) and fugues (W.F. and J.S. Bach). L'Archibudelli's recording, like everything else from them, is high-spirited and rigorous in their approach. The older recording by members of the Collegium Aureum strikes me as being quite a bit mellower but still a successful compromise between perod and modern performing practices.

 

[TheGhostWhoWalks]

That Brilliant Classics set is excellently priced but I've never been impressed by their performances. Never terrible but never really good either. But for THAT price I'd say it's $120 well spent. I'm still glad I have my Philips set that's uber-high quality all the way through.

 

[Masolino]

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Originally Posted by Bunnyears I believe that Brilliant Classics has released the symphonies in SACD/hybrid format as well and you might want to consider that rather than this set which is just stereo. I believe the symphonies are by Ton Koopman but I haven't heard them nor seen any reviews.

Ton Koopman did a performance of all Mozart symphonies in Japan a decade or two ago at the Suntory Hall (elsewhere also? can't remember) which was recorded and subsequently broadcast by NHK. I still have a 2-CD set (Erato) with his performances in Tokyo of Symphonies 31, 34, 35, 36, 38, 41 (all second-half repeats were not observed for quicker dispatches

). Earlier symphonies might have been at one time released on CD as well (N.B. mymusic seems to have some of them as part of Warner's Mozart Special Edition). Koopman's recording of symphonies 39 and 40 that is commercially available was however made as an after thought back home in Holland:



The NHK recordings reveal a very small body of strings with prominent brass/
woodwind sound balances. This may actually resemble most what I imagine
to be the way Mozart's symphonies were often performed in his time.

 

[LFF]

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Originally Posted by Doc Sarvis I just bought it. Total cost shipped to my US home: $117 US. Mozart - Overrated? No. Underpriced? Yes!

WOW. I am very tempted. I don't know whether to get this set now or wait and buy the whole set on SACD.

For now I am happy with my Ubber complete mozart edition (on philips) and all the variation requiems and some others that are missing from the philips set and brilliant classics set which I tracked down. Oh yeah.

 

[FalconP]

My favorite Mozart:
String Quintet K174
Musical Joke K522
Gran Partita K361
Piano Concerto No.21
Clarinet Concerto
Concerto for Harp and Flute

 

[Ferbose]

On his birthday, I kind of pondered upon my collection of Mozart's music.
Despite the fact I like his music a lot, and that I have a sizable number of Mozart's recordings by reputed artists or acclaimed Mozart specialists, none of the recordings really strike me as particularly profound.
I guess it is just hard to play Mozart well.
After digging through a bunch of my recordings, I finally found a Mozart CD that does him full justice:

Concerto #20 played by Jando for Naxos.
It is released with either #13 or #21.

I also have a two-CD set by Curzon on Decca, #20,23,34,26,27, as well as Brendel playing #21 and 23 for Decca. Brendel and Curzon are both supposed to be world-class Mozart interpreters, and they are getting world-class orchestral support, but for an inexplicable reason I think Jando's playing dignifies Mozart the most. Maybe Curzon shows a tad too much sensitivity, and Brendel takes a soft-hearted approach. Jendo approaches with frankness and a more stout apporach. Maybe Jando is just less self-consciuos when he recorded this for Naxos in 1989, before he or Naxos have made real reputations.

 

[vcoheda]

I really like Jando's Schubert.

 

[Bobby B.]

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Originally Posted by saint.panda Now I can't decide which 170 CD set I should go for.

The sets shown at jpc.de and amazon.fr are both the Brilliant Classics edition.

Amazon.de has the same offer by the way (Link)
I'm also very tempted about this bargain, but there is a Bach Complete Works of Brilliant Classics, too

 

[vcoheda]

I saw the New World last night by the obscure yet genius writer/director Terrence Malick. The movie was amazing with gorgeous cinematography. It was poetry in film; a masterpiece, and unlike any movie I have ever seen. I recommend it without reservation. The movie had two main motifs, the entry into the new world and the love between Pocahontas and John Smith. The music for the new world was the unmistakable and very famous introduction to Wagner's Das Rheingold. The love motif was the haunting adagio to Mozart's piano concerto No. 23. I had never heard the adagio played better. When I looked at the credits, the performer was none other than Jando.

 

[ns6490]

Does anyone have any opinions on this Schnabel recording of Mozart?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...sical&v=glance

 

[Bunnyears]

I had lps of his Beethoven piano sonatas back in the good old days. I'm not familiar with his Mozart recordings but I imagine they are as well thought out as his Beethoven.

Be warned, Schnabel died in 1951 so the sound quality on these recordings is not going to be that great as these are probably transfers from 78 rpm records or very old 33.3 rpm LPs (in monophonic sound).

 

[CSMR]

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Originally Posted by Bunnyears Be warned, Schnabel died in 1951 so the sound quality on these recordings is not going to be that great as these are probably transfers from 78 rpm records or very old 33.3 rpm LPs (in monophonic sound).

The CD is a Pearl transfer, which guarantees its quality. It will have some pops and hiss but the sound will come through, as is not the case with every other label I have heard. (Pearl does not process the sound, whereas most other companies "clean up" the sound and destroy it in the process.)

 

[Leporello]

Piano Cti in general, 17 & 18 in particular.
Don Giovanni (of course

) & Figaro
Mass in c minor
Symphony 38


Regards,

L. - notte e giorno faticar

 

[ns6490]

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Originally Posted by Bunnyears I had lps of his Beethoven piano sonatas back in the good old days. I'm not familiar with his Mozart recordings but I imagine they are as well thought out as his Beethoven. Be warned, Schnabel died in 1951 so the sound quality on these recordings is not going to be that great as these are probably transfers from 78 rpm records or very old 33.3 rpm LPs (in monophonic sound).

Well, I'm not really much of an audiophile, and SQ is not a huge issue for me. Interpretation, however, is. I did have a chance to listen to one of the 2 CDs in that album today, and it is quite excellent. From Schnabel's autobiography I read way back when, his teacher Leschetizky told him, "You are a musician and will never be a pianist," and the vice versa for a fellow student.

BTW, despite its poor SQ, the CD transfer of the acetates of Bartok and Szigeti performing the Kreutzer and a few of Bartok's own pieces from 1940 is one of the more astounding records I have ever heard:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...sical&v=glance