MOZART: Piano Concertos 26, 27 - Vienna Philharmonic

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano Concertos Nos, 26 and 27

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano and director

Rudolf Buchbinder, at five years of age the youngest student ever to be admitted to the Vienna Musik Hochschule, began his comprehensive musical career as chamber musician.

In the meantime, he performed as soloist with all great orchestras and conductors all over the world and is regular guest at the Salzburger Festspiele and all other major festivals.

Meanwhile Rudolf Buchbinder prefers live-recordings. His cycle of all Mozart piano-concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, live recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus, was acclaimed by the famous critic Joachim Kaiser as CD of the year 1998.

MOZART: Piano Concertos 26, 27 - Vienna Philharmonic - Rodulf Buchbinder,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Profil

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An exemplar in this repertoire

MOZART: Piano Concertos 26, 27 - Vienna Philharmonic - Rodulf Buchbinder

Manufacturer: Profil
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00078ZZF0
Release Date: 2004-12-28

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Piano Concertos Nos, 26 and 27

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano and director

Rudolf Buchbinder, at five years of age the youngest student ever to be admitted to the Vienna Musik Hochschule, began his comprehensive musical career as chamber musician.

In the meantime, he performed as soloist with all great orchestras and conductors all over the world and is regular guest at the Salzburger Festspiele and all other major festivals.

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An exemplar in this repertoire.......2005-03-15

For me, Rudolf Buchbinder's collaboration with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in the Mozart piano concertos has been a revelation. This new CD, recently released by Profil in collaboration with a release of all his Mozart concertos, is another valuable addition to this discography, which the pianist conducts from the keyboard.

Not all critics share my enthusiasm for Buchbinder's Mozart, however. A recent American Record Guide dissed the Profil release of all his Mozart concertos, saying it brought nothing new to the landscape and left the field essentially unchanged.

But to show that difference is the substance of art and criticism, a contributor to the 2003 book, "Third Ear Classical Music", provided a position more like my own, saying the Buchbinder recordings were outstanding and joined the league of great Mozart pianists of recent years.

I have heard Mozart recordings -- including recorded performances of the two concertos heard here -- by all the great pianists of recent years including Perhaia, Barenboim, Uchida, Brendel, Curzon and Gilels. I don't quibble that these are fine players with a perspective. Buchbinder's new Concerto 27 seems most to me like the classic Gilels version, with modern sonics.

For me, Buchbinder always brings something different -- and better -- to the music. I would best describe this as a masculinity or a manliness, if you will, that I do not often hear from other pianists.

By contrast, Brendel's interpretations have gotten increasingly eccentric with age and those by Perhaia and Uchida seem to me to eviscerate real or perceived manliness in the Mozart scores. Another interpetation of this, I suppose, is the other pianists bring a certain sensitivity to the music Buchbinder eschews. I don't think that's true but I think others may.

I own many of Buchbinder's single releases of the Mozart concertos on the Calig label. There is a uniform approach to the music in these performances that are largely mimicked on this release of Concerto 26: a driven approach often accompanied by close miking of timpani that serves the continuo purpose in his performances a harpsichord serves in Baroque music.

Whether or not you like this approach, you cannot deny the straightforwardness of Buchbinder's playing, which is clear, concise, dramatic and senstitive to the chaniging moods of the music. Even the ARG critic that dissed the re-release of all the concertos admitted Buchbinder's pianism was his more valuable asset in the recordings.

Depending on your preferences, you should be able to determine whether or not you might enjoy this new recording. For me, these are authoritative performances in a vein with Buchbinder's earlier work and provide a singular view of Mozart performance.

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