K449-1 Mozart Piano concerto no. 14 in E flat movt 1

http://mozartdatabase.blogspot.com/2008/01/piano-concerto-no-14-in-e-flat-k44...
Levin/Hogwood (Decca)

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[smithsherman]

It's hard to say something about a playing that says nothing.Unless of course that 1should regard stylistically fashionable airey textures played with metronomic panache as a (statement).

[mozartdatabase]

I very nearly chose a performance by Horszowski instead, but finally opted for this one. I suppose for your sake I should have gone with Horszowski.

[gofreddor]

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Am I going blind? Fine, crisp performance.

[mozartdatabase]

I hope not. Yes, it's a very fine performance, from one of the best discs in their series (it also includes an outstanding account of K451). Regards, mdb

[gofreddor]

You don't identify the source. My guess: Eugene Istomin with Pablo Casals and the Prades Festival.

[mozartdatabase]

Yes I do (check the info top right: "About This Video"). And nope. Robert Levin with Christopher Hogwood (period instr). Regards, mdb

[Poit448]

You say "playing that says nothing" What does this mean? Then you say "stylistically fashionable airey textures played with metronomic panache". Rubbish!

What you are saying is that you can't play Mozart. You can't play Mozart because you haven't the talent or technique to play Mozart. So, go away, and leave the music lovers alone.

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[cosmos680]

I read that this concert, as well as K453, Mozart dedicated to one of his best students at the time, Barbara Ployer. Futhermore, while writing the K453 in Gmajor, a Starling that Mozart had bought, whistled a part of the melody of the Final Allegretto, which overjoyed Mozart immensely. Upon the death of the bird, Mozart dedicated to him a very special poem.

[not2tees]

That cadence at 6:50, when the soloist leads into a major resolution but the orchestra comes up from beneath as it were, to overtake the cadence with a minor resolution - that still seems pretty impressive after so many years. It's so lovely, the work as a whole. I overlooked the Mozart concertos in my early Beethoven-devotee years.

[faleru]

@IsaacIsaiahMusic clementi said that mozart played with grace and inteligence n_n

[Cancrizans]

I personally like the Bilson/Gardiner set better bc the Fortepiano sounds a bit less "tinny" and more eh crud idk wth to call it...anyway it has the more "rounded" or "softer" tone I find more appealing, but to each his own, regardless, a minor point, great performance and thanks so much for posting. ^.^

[ym860912]

I love the sound of fortepiano.

[andy4226uk]

This is a superb rendition of what is one of my favourite movements of all Mozart's piano concertos.

[IsaacIsaiahMusic]

He improvises the cadenzas which is something most pianists can't do! Any what does a performance have to 'say' exactly? All this modern obsession with meaning and making statements. Just play the fucking music, it speaks for itself. I'm sick of all these Hip, Liberace-like performances anyway (like Lang-Lang). I wonder how brilliant Mozart's playing was compared to modern pianists. Beethoven said he had a "fine, but choppy sound. No legato". I can imagine that with Mozart. Precise staccato.

[MOZARTasaWARcrime]

I award this 4 Dresdens.