Mozart

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I have the big box,
No kidding, the post before you references the biggest box I own... the Mozart Edition at 170 cds!!

That one that came out about three decades ago (if I'm recalling correctly) on Philips?! 

I have one of those (an opera set) given to me by a friend some years ago.

PD

[DavidW]

That one that came out about three decades ago (if I'm recalling correctly) on Philips?! 

I have one of those (an opera set) given to me by a friend some years ago.

PD

No the Brilliant Classics set which is much cheaper!  The only part of the complete Philips set I ever had was the Quartetto Italiano's Mozart SQs.

[calyptorhynchus]

I've just noticed an odd thing: I have the Bart van Oort's Mozart complete keyboard works on fortepiano. However, although this set seems to include everything else (including the piano 4 hand sonatas K358 and 521), it doesn't include the piano 4 hand sonatas K 381, 497.

Why would he have left these two out?

[SonicMan46]

I've just noticed an odd thing: I have the Bart van Oort's Mozart complete keyboard works on fortepiano. However, although this set seems to include everything else (including the piano 4 hand sonatas K358 and 521), it doesn't include the piano 4 hand sonatas K 381, 497.

Why would he have left these two out?

Well, looking at the disc listings on the Brilliant website, the two works mentioned above are on disc 12 (see pic below) - Dave

[calyptorhynchus]

Well, this is what this forum is for, if you're too addled by age to see what's in front of you, you can ask someone else to help you out!

Yes, I just had a look in the box and Disc 12 does indeed include those works. The only thing I can say in my defence is that CD 14 is titled Keyboard Works 4-hands and Two Pianos and CD13 is titled Keyboard Works 4-hand Vol II, so somehow I concluded they were the only 4 hand discs in the set.

Anyway, thanks 

[lordlance]

There's something so joyous about PC17. I just heard the Bychkov/Pressler performance: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/16878

Brightens your day, no?

Having said that it's a bit disappointing how interpretively limited the Mozart PCs are. There's really not much there unlike with your juicy Romantic concertos. It's a bit interpreter-proof which for me makes listening to them kind of pointless because I listen to the warhorses always eager to hear a new interpretation. When the works come off well so easily regardless of who's playing them, listening to them becomes a bit bland admittedly (as great as the music is no doubt.) 

Of course, I am no piano guy so perhaps piano folks can endlessly dissect phrasing whereas the orchestral parts all just need to be played as-is.

[DavidW]

A couple days ago I listened to this album:



And I really appreciated how much more intense and dramatic the 20th becomes in a driven, PI performance.  This isn't polite music at tea time.  This is storming the heavens!  I loved it.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

A couple days ago I listened to this album:



And I really appreciated how much more intense and dramatic the 20th becomes in a driven, PI performance.  This isn't polite music at tea time.  This is storming the heavens!  I loved it.

Well, your review intrigued me, so I found this (which I'll listen to whilst eating my breakfast).

PD

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/45/000167154.pdf

Lovely 595, thanks for pointing the CD out, the booklet essay by John Irving is not without interest, I may investigate his books.

[San Antone]

A couple days ago I listened to this album:



And I really appreciated how much more intense and dramatic the 20th becomes in a driven, PI performance.  This isn't polite music at tea time.  This is storming the heavens!  I loved it.

I like that set, as well those by Bilson, Immerseel, Levin, and Sofronitsky.  About all I listen to for Mozart and Haydn are PI recordings.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'm enjoying the performance.  It's apparently with Charles Hazlewood and the Mozart Collective.

PD

[Spotted Horses]

A couple days ago I listened to this album:



And I really appreciated how much more intense and dramatic the 20th becomes in a driven, PI performance.  This isn't polite music at tea time.  This is storming the heavens!  I loved it.

I haven't listen to that particular recording, but I've immensely enjoyed what I've listen to in that set.