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Mozart:The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations
Studio : EMI Classics
by EMI Classics
Release Date : 2000-11-07
Publisher : EMI Classics
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours and eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
EAN : 0724357391528
UPC : 724357391528
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 8 reviews)
List Price : $53.98
Our Price : $31.97
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Just the right number of notes... |
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I love classical music. I've learned to listen without being hyper-critical; just lsitening with my heart. Barenboim is a gifted muscian, and this performance is yet another example of Daniel's control of the keyboard. Endless hours of great musical listening. |
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slowish delivery |
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i had to wait a while for this CD set, but it arrived in good condition & the seller kept in contact frequently |
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Five stars from a Mozart piano sonata lover |
As an amateur pianist and Mozart lover, I own the complete piano sonatas by three different artists: Uchida, Maria Joao Pires, and Barenboim. I have listened to each set hundreds of times, and after buying Barenboim, side by side. For me, this interpretation is so far above the others (though much more so compared to Uchida than to Joao Pires), that I have only listened to Barenboim for the past year. One reviewer below points out that the 3 CDs of piano variations are not necessary, and I agree. However, the price is very reasonable, and I simply omitted the last 3 CDs when I loaded this into my iPOD.
You will treasure this performance each time you listen. |
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like sparkling mineral water |
It is something near to a cleansing experience to listen through the Mozart piano repertoire as performed by Daniel Barenboim.
For starters, Mozart achieves his sparest, cleanest, most limpid lines when writing for solo piano. Then comes Daniel Barenboim, whose reading of Mozart is crisply and unemotionally classical. Not for him the drawn-out keyboard soliloquy. On the contrary, Barenboim gives us Mozart, only Mozart, and nothing but Mozart, clean and shimmering as sparkling mineral water.
This is not to say that Barenboim as pianist is unfeeling. On the contrary, the Fantasia in C Minor - to choose just one example with almost random lack of care - is quite moving. But not with a flourish. Rather, with almost sinewy restraint. The presentation represents a fine grasp of the master composer, nurtured with discipline across the length and breadth of the voluminous sonatas.
Indeed, the sheer volume of the Mozart piano sonatas is intimidating. It is astonishing to imagine one man having mastered it as Barenboim has. EMI Classics has done us the favor of collecting these two gentlemen's asynchronic collaboration in one set, affordable at that.
If Mozart is a musician for the ages and Barenboim a performer who left a formidable imprint on the twentieth century, their collaboration as represented in these recordings is a watershed that will need to be referenced by students of classical piano for at least another hundred years, or until people can only remember as far back as the Dixie Chicks.
Buy Barenboim on Mozart before that happens, and so stick your thumb in the dike against the evil day. |
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Lovely |
As a pianist myself, I love Barenboim's playing. He does not play Mozart too Beethoven like. His performances are usually VERY good, and this is one example. Also includes the complete variations, which are very nice. The sound quality is excellent. Very highly recommended.
"The sonatas of Mozart are unique: too easy for children, too difficult for adults. Children are given Mozart to play because of the quantity of notes; grown ups avoid him because of the quality of notes." - Artur Schnabel |
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