Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21 - Malcolm Bilson / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Artist), Malcolm Bilson (Artist), English Baroque Soloists (Artist), John Eliot Gardiner (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000057CX
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #154,109 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Too faint (keyboard), call for energy..., January 2, 2007

By	Sanja Kostic "mirro" (mirro) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's sad that this amazing orchestra can't communicate with the piano.

D-moll, Allegro. After explosive intro, rhythm, strings and winds all at top-notch performance, comes the piano and drops music low-down. It is scholarly perfect Mozart, but completely out of content: while orchestra, in furious tempo successfully deals with unfriendly score, to bring to the point of soloist's first word, piano acts anemic, faint and a kind of tired. I personally think that it has something to do with pianist's technique, melody line-right hand. I am an horn amateur, but my collection of Mozart piano concertos CD's is about the size of public library. So I take as a grant to compare some of the recordings. For instance, Viennese school of Mozart's piano concertos is highly esteemed, Mathias Kirschnereit, Alexandar Majar, are new and fresh while among oldest on the throne are a couple of them: Demus Jorg, Walter Klein.

Now, let's move to the next concerto.

C-Dur, Allegro. Closing the intro bassoon, oboe and flute make one of the finest solo I ever heard, but then comes the quiet piano. It misses to shape the very important solo-trill, just before an orcherstra takes again. At the second appearance piano misses to comunicate and so on, untill the very end. Yet, oddly enough, Andante somehow tend to be memorable: they all give the best.

The good thing about the pianist: he plays amazing cadenzas for both concertos which I highly esteem. Cadenzas tend to make for everything as a balance between the brilliant orchestra and mediocre piano,. So, I certainly recommend this CD for everyone, especially for collectors.
Mirro