|
Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 414 & 491 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurizio Pollini, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $10.34
You Save: $6.64 (39%)
New (38) Used (7) from $10.34
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 11412
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 001099402
UPC: 028947771678
EAN: 0028947771678
ASIN: B00111WRRQ
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Allegro [10:03] | | • | Andante [8:09] | | • | Rondeau: Allegretto [6:28] | | • | Allegro [12:26] | | • | Larghetto [8:10] | | • | Allegretto [9:07] |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Here is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Maurizio Pollini s acclaimed 2006 recording
of Mozart s Piano Concertos in G, K. 453 and in C, K. 467, in which he not only plays but
directs the nonpareil Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
About that recording, The Times [London] stated: You hear a man in love...he plays
Mozart with real feeling, leading us into the music s depth, its inner melodies, never
content with the surface...the music always moves forward, developing, growing, with
the subtlest range of colours...These are performances of conversational intimacy.
When one is in love, one can never get enough, so Pollini has done it again: in summer
2007 he and the Vienna Philharmonic recorded the early, cheerful Piano Concerto
in A, K. 414 and the famous C minor Concerto, K. 491, a mature work of
brooding pathos.
Once again, Pollini and the Vienna Philharmonic work without
a conductor, in front of a live audience in Vienna s famous
Musikverein, parlaying their deep mutual understanding
and respect into one of the noblest and most profound
Mozart experiences imaginable.
Album Description
When you are in love, you can never get enough, so Pollini has done it again: in summer 2007 he and the Wiener Philharmoniker recorded the early Piano Concerto in A major, K. 414 and the famous C minor Concerto, K. 491, a work characterised by its brooding pathos. As with his first Mozart recording, Pollini's relationship with the Wiener Philharmoniker is again unmediated by a conductor - an enterprise that presupposes the deep mutual understanding of the partners. The result is one of the noblest and most profound Mozart experiences imaginable.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Enchantingly beautiful playing ... lucidly recorded ...simply spellbinding... highly recommended...a very special CD July 14, 2008
Peter B. Behr (New York, NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is Maurizio Pollini's second CD playing Mozart piano concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and conducting from the keyboard. The playing is enchantingly beautiful and the performances are lucidly recorded.
The program was played on June 2 and June 3 in the Musikverein in Vienna.
The evening program began with Mozart's Concerto No. 12 for Piano and Orchestra, A Major, KV 414. It was followed by Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments; Hugo Wolf's Serenade G Major, "Italian Serenade"; and closed with Mozart's Concerto No. 24 for Piano and Orchestra, C Minor, KV 491.
When I first listened to this CD, I found myself playing it through several times in a row. One friend with limited interest in classical music hear it, went out and bought a copy, and said he played it straight through 4 times as soon as he got home with it. Another friend, who is very particular about what she listens to, and drives quite far most days, says she has not taken the CD off her car's CD player.
This is a very engaging set of performances. Pollini's playing is enchantingly beautiful, and luminously suffused throughout with deep and warm understanding, fine charm and lyrical wit.
Pollini plays No 12/A Major/K 414 with Mozart's cadenzas. This easy and friendly concerto is rich in melodies and full of delightful inventions, even while following the formal concerto structure, and Pollini brings all this out in a lovely, lyrical way.
No 24/C Minor/K 491 is sometimes referred to as dark or brooding. Darkly stirring would be a better description for what I heard in the opening passage work, and which characterizes much of this concerto. The contrasts between the dramatically shifting energy of the first and third movements and the reflective calm of the middle movement throw into relief each movement's complex character, while also underlying their coherence as a whole. It is simply spellbinding.
Pollini's friend, Salvatore Sciarrino composed the cadenzas, which Mozart did not leave. Sciarrino brings the same ineffably good taste to his composition here as he did on Pollini's last Mozart CD - very different from Sciarrino's challenging contemporary compositions.
The Vienna Philharmonic again is a good orchestral partner, and the recording and engineering quality are again very fine. Highly recommended, even for devotees of other pianists. This is a very special CD.
|
|
|
Used CDs | |
