Mozart Piano Concertos: Murray Perahia/english Chamber Orchestra - Vinyl 13xlp Boxset+booklet 33rpm

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Mozart Piano Concertos Murray Perahia / English Chamber Orchestra Released by CBS 1985 - Vinyl 13xLPs Boxset inc booklet 33rpm Dutch Pressings Stereo This is the consensus, definitive version of Mozart's Piano Concertos. Mr. Perahia uses the 1-27 numbering and includes in it the first four youthful transcriptions/adaptations plus Mozart's three concerto versions of Johann Christian Bach sonatas (K. 107). Mozart's piano concertos speak to the age that he himself helped begin, an era ruled by the idea that the individual - no matter how small, how limited in strength - could swing the larger forces of nature to his way of thinking. Its scientists became confident as never before that the world was explainable and its problems capable of resolution. Heroes such as Beethoven and Byron - revolutions like those in America and France -ennobled the ego, enlarged our sense of self. ''A concerto is a conversation,'' writes Michael Steinberg , ''and not without some element of contest. It is central to the idea of concerto that there be a fundamental inequality between the participants in that conversation, and part of the appeal is in the way that the one dominates the many.'' For other commentators, the concerto is conflict pure and simple. Yet as one listens to Mozart's extraordinarily simple slow-movement solos, one hears the benign, persuasive character of these dialogues. Later concerto writers - Chopin and Rachmaninoff, for example - stacked the deck against ''the many'' by giving the orchestra much less to do and swelling the solos to gigantic dimensions. In Mozart the balance is very fair. There is, of course, struggle in his concertos. In the precocious E Flat (K. 271), the piano knocks loudly on the orchestra's door at the very first bars, but it is only later that admittance is gained. And in the great C minor (K. 491), the solo piano listens silently to the opening instrumental tutti, but at first ignores its message and veers in a different direction. Mr. Perahia, in contrast, floats above conflict, with utter faith in the music to express itself. Mozart's melodic and harmonic patterns are not used as means to self-expression; one senses rather a love for the form itself - a radiant affection for the rise and fall of phrases, and for the precise calculations of tempo which will allow them to breathe naturally. In Mr. Perahia's D minor, tragedy operates in a world of stillness. The sheer quality of Mr. Perahia's sound is extraordinary and makes us think again on piano technique and how it is learned. Mr. Perahia's sympathetic conductor is, of course, himself. It is difficult to tell just how talented a musical director he actually is, but in these performances orchestra and soloist manage almost exactly to replicate the other's style. The empathy between ''the one'' and ''the many'' becomes touching indeed.
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