Mozart Piano Concertos
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Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: The Originals
Magazine Review Date: 7/1992
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: 432 086-4PH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 8 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Mitsuko Uchida, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 9 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Mitsuko Uchida, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: The Originals
Magazine Review Date: 7/1992
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 55
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: 432 086-2PH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 8 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Mitsuko Uchida, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 9 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Mitsuko Uchida, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Author: Christopher Headington
I have more than once criticized Uchida's tendency to prettify Mozart, but there is little of it here, save in the brief first-movement cadenza which simpers a little: in any case, the remarkably melancholy yet dignified Andantino in C minor hardly encourages it and the finale, with its curiously interpolated minuet, clearly calls out for the geniality and high spirits which are evident in this performance.
The feminine (but hardly feminist) theme of this disc is continued by the C major Concerto, which was written for Countess Antonia Lutzow. This is a more conventional work, but only by Mozart's standards, for it has plenty of fine material to offer and even here the minuet-finale is an unusual feature. As Erik Smith nicely puts it in his booklet-note, ''there is enough brilliance to dazzle, but not too much for the fingers of a countess''. Certainly not too much for those of her strikingly gifted Japanese successor, who brings to this spacious work the right proportions of freshness and subtlety.'
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