Mozart:The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations [Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording reissued]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Daniel Barenboim (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Daniel Barenboim
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Audio CD (November 7, 2000)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 8
• Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording reissued
• 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: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B00004YA0U
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,930 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars from a Mozart piano sonata lover, August 14, 2007

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A Music Lover (New York City, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mozart:The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations (Audio CD)

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.

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars like sparkling mineral water, December 21, 2006

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David A. Baer (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mozart:The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations (Audio CD)

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.

37 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece, April 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Mozart:The Complete Piano Sonatas and Variations (Audio CD)

If this is not one of the great all time recordings of Mozart Piano Sonatas, I do not know what is! Bravo, Mr. Barenboim, Bravo and Bravo and Bravo.

Yes, sometimes the music seems almost to race, but the overall performance is heavenly, a formidable light touch!

I have never heard anything so compelling. The birds sing in my garden when I play it with the window open. I am sure it is played as Mozart intended.

8 CDs in this box, in modest cardboard envelopes, what treasure they contain! At less than fifty dollars, this is a great bargain.