Giordano Bruno | Wherever I am, I am. | 07/22/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"...Mozart might have written if he had not been seduced by the novelty of the lugubrious Hammerklavier! Only one disk in this box set (which is subsumed in the Brilliant Classics 155-disk Mozart Complete Works, and therefore NOT an economical purchase) is performed on harpsichord by Pieter-Jan Belder, but what a revelation it is! The joyous, crystalline, ripple of the harpsichord suits Mozart's rococo gallantry perfectly. Would that all twenty-seven of Mozart's concertos for keyboard had been performed by Belder on his harpsichord rather than by the cautious Derek Han on fortepiano!
"Oh," you say,"it's Giordano being provocative again." Yes, of course, but I may be on to something. Mozart and his contemporaries grew up on the touch and technique of the harpsichord, and I think Mozart's keyboard idiom, at least through the first fifteen concertos, strongly reflects the idiom of the harpsichord. It would be more interesting, and more historically justified, to hear Mozart played on harpsichord by a brilliant interpreter like Belder, than to hear Bach disfigured by anyone on piano."
NOT SOUND FOR A SACD
Chilean Opera lover | Santiago, Chile | 11/03/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)
"The concerts are correctly performed but the sound is not good enough for a SACD. The original sources are PCM Stereo and from these was generated the surround sound. The audio was mixed and spatialized in Brazil and that could be the problem. My experience with DVD's and CD's made or mixed in Brazil has not been satisfactory. In this case, most of the concerts were recorded between 1992 and 1995 and the final result in SACD is a sound with a notorious hizzzzzzz, which means a bad remasterizing. I have bought other SACD's, and recorded in the late eighties, with better sound than these. Better wait for another series or buy them separatelly."
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1![Mozart: Piano Concertos [Box Set] [Hybrid SACD]](https://nationalbookswap.com/cd//l/40/5840/13245840.jpg)