Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos [Box set]

Wolfgang A. Mozart (Composer), Murray Perahia (Conductor, Performer), English Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra), Radu Lupu (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu
• Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
• Conductor: Murray Perahia
• Composer: Wolfgang A. Mozart
• Audio CD (August 22, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 12
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000GLKLCK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,353 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #65 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Keyboard > Piano

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88 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars remastered classic performances, May 7, 2007

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M. Bauer "M." (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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The performances on this 12 disc set have been praised since they were orginally issued in the late 1970s and through the 1980s. I have other complete sets and individual discs of these works, and I find myself returning to Perahia as my favorites. He has astounding tone and sense of rhythm, and the English Chamber Orchestra is in lock step with him throughout I am sure in part due to the fact that Perahia conducted them from the keyboard.

What makes this 2006 reissue even more special? First, Sony remastered all of the recordings using their Direct Stream Digital process and SBM direct. What this means is that the sound sparkles with a realism that was lacking before. In addition, the set is packaged in sturdy envelopes and a cardboard case that takes a little over an inch of shelf space. It saves you money, and takes up much less space that traditional jewel case require.

A legendary set, with recent technical improvements, at a great price.

Highest of recommendations!

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The pinnacle of Perahia's career ...so far!, January 27, 2008

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Mark Hennicke (A stone's throw from Carnegie Hall) - See all my reviews
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I have owned Murray Perahia's Mozart: The Complete Piano Concertos in all of its incarnations: audio cassette, lps, individual cds ,1991 box set and now this, the definitive release of these legendary performances-the 2006 DSD(Direct Stream Digital) remastered collection. The reputation of Perahia and the ECO in the Mozart piano concertos is almost without peer. Indeed, there are many fine sets available that come close, including Uchida, Anda, Barenboim, Bilson, etc. (many of which I've heard and/or owned,) but the Perahia 2006 set is truly the finest. The sound is brilliantly new & clear on this remastered set, now available at half what the 1991 set cost when it was first released. Perahia has a special bond with these works, very much like Artur Rubinstein has with the music of Chopin, Zoltan Kocsis has with the music of Bartok & Debussy and Georges Cziffra has with the music of Franz Liszt. It is quite apparent that the Mozart piano concertos touch Murray Perahia to the depths of his artistic soul, stunningly shown here on this latest complete box set.
My wife recently asked me if I could keep only one release from my extensive classical cd collection ( numbering in the neighborhood of 2000 discs to date,)what would it be. There is no doubt-this Mozart set from Perahia is the one! It would be among the absolute crown jewels of any good music collection.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Will Be Blown Away..., August 9, 2007

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J. Savett (Rockville, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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I've listened to Mozart's piano concertos in one form or another for several years and I've never heard them played as magnificently as Perahia does here. The English Chamber Orchestra sounds lush and full, but it's Perahia's lucid, mellifluous tone that will make you happy you shelled out the money for this set. And by the way, the early and middle Concertos are wonderful and have many many moments of pure vintage Mozart beauty; don't get stuck only listening to the well known ones (21, 23, 25 etc...)
In addition to the joy you'll get in listening to these concertos (surely some of Mozart's finest creations), these also function as a fine introduction to the style and sound of Mozart's greatest music: his operas. In many of these concertos, Mozart uses the interplay between the piano and the orchestra in similar fashion to how he would later use voice and orchestra in his operas. Before listening to these concertos I had very little interest in opera. I've since become quite fan and I love Mozart's three Da Ponte operas (Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte) as well as Die Zauberflote.