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[marvinbrown]

  To all GMG member I keep seeing this recording wherever I go, is it worth owning:

 

  marvin

[Mark]

  To all GMG member I keep seeing this recording wherever I go, is it worth owning:

 

  marvin

I've heard only an extract, but I liked what I heard. I own the Klara Wurtz set, and there are many on this forum who will divide into either her camp, or Uchida's.

[Great Gable]

I just posted this Uchida set in the bargains thread - she really has a good relationship with Mozart.

[longears]

Yes.  See http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,6922.0.html

[Bogey]

A favorite set of mine Marvin.

[marvinbrown]

  Thanks for the link longears and everyone for responding.  Its settled then, that set just went into my amazon.co.uk shopping basket  .

  marvin

[sidoze]

I'm with Larry Rinkel on this one, the Uchida is too dainty and too mannered for my taste. There's a (much) better set on Brilliant by Klara Wurtz.

[locrian]

I'm with Larry Rinkel on this one, the Uchida is too dainty and too mannered for my taste. There's a (much) better set on Brilliant by Klara Wurtz.

Do you like Uchida at all?

[sidoze]

Do you like Uchida at all?

no, not one bit, at least not in Mozart, Chopin or Beethoven. Overpaid and underskilled.

[Don]

I'm with Larry Rinkel on this one, the Uchida is too dainty and too mannered for my taste. There's a (much) better set on Brilliant by Klara Wurtz.

I'm not with Larry or Sidoze.  I don't find the Uchida dainty or mannered.  Actually, I feel she "hits the enevelope" in the faster movements.

[marvinbrown]

I'm with Larry Rinkel on this one, the Uchida is too dainty and too mannered for my taste. There's a (much) better set on Brilliant by Klara Wurtz.

  You mean this one sidoze?

 

  marvin

[longears]

Something Don and I can agree on.  "Dainty?"  Hardly.  Fluid and lyrical, I'd say.  I like Wurtz, too, but at times she seems a bit heavy handed...for my taste.  As an alternative I can recommend Pires--her early set is a steal on Brilliant.

[locrian]

Something Don and I can agree on.  "Dainty?"  Hardly.  Fluid and lyrical, I'd say.  I like Wurtz, too, but at times she seems a bit heavy handed...for my taste.

I agree. She might be on the dainty side, but she makes up for it in other ways.

[marvinbrown]

Something Don and I can agree on.  "Dainty?"  Hardly.  Fluid and lyrical, I'd say.  I like Wurtz, too, but at times she seems a bit heavy handed...for my taste.  As an alternative I can recommend Pires--her early set is a steal on Brilliant.

  Oh boy and here I thought picking up a box set of Mozart's piano sonatas (which has been missing from my collection since time began  - "or at least my time") was going to be easy  .


  marvin

[Don]

Something Don and I can agree on.  "Dainty?"  Hardly.  Fluid and lyrical, I'd say.  I like Wurtz, too, but at times she seems a bit heavy handed...for my taste.  As an alternative I can recommend Pires--her early set is a steal on Brilliant.

That is quite a steal.  I acquired those Denon discs when they were first released and have thoroughly enjoyed them for many years.

[sidoze]

  You mean this one sidoze?

yes that's the one.

I'm not with Larry or Sidoze. 

I think the next Natan Brand release--if it ever comes out--will include some Mozart

[sidoze]

  Oh boy and here I thought picking up a box set of Mozart's piano sonatas (which has been missing from my collection since time began  - "or at least my time") was going to be easy  .


  marvin

this is easy. wait until Chopin comes along 

[locrian]

Really, the Mozart piano sonatas don't do much for me.

[sidoze]

Really, the Mozart piano sonatas don't do much for me.

may I refer you to:

I agree. She might be on the dainty side, but she makes up for it in other ways.

It doesn't always work, but sometimes a heavier approach gets more out of the music. You should begin to subscribe to the Russian way 

[locrian]

It doesn't always work, but sometimes a heavier approach gets more out of the music. You should begin to subscribe to the Russian way 

In this case, you're probably right.