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Title: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: gregh87 on June 04, 2008, 03:46:16 PM: I used to play mostly romantic pieces, but after playing Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, I really want to play more Beethoven and Mozart. I'd really like to play Beethoven's 4th Concerto (I like it more than his fifth), but I think it's too long for me to have a realistic opportunity to play it with an orchestra. I really don't know much about Mozart's Concertos.

What is everyone's favorite? The only one I'm somewhat familiar with is the 20th, and I really like that one.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: Petter on June 04, 2008, 04:06:00 PM: I like the D-minor one (nr20?), and nr 27, Bb flat. :D
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: rachmaninova on June 04, 2008, 05:51:12 PM: Mozart's c minor and b-flat
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: welltemperedpianist on June 04, 2008, 09:48:38 PM: No 9 in E-flat is really nice.

So is No. 23 in A-major. They're both probably the more well-known ones.
I love his Piano Concerto No. 20.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: slobone on June 05, 2008, 01:51:17 AM: D minor. First Mozart piece I listened to as a kid (Schnabel recording) and it blew me away. I used to love to put it on when there was a storm outside.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: viking on June 05, 2008, 02:28:58 AM: 9
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: webern78 on June 05, 2008, 11:09:14 AM: Starting with no. 20 all of Mozart concertos are masterpieces, except maybe for the 26th. Can't go wrong with those ones.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: teresa_b on June 05, 2008, 11:32:54 AM: Aside from No. 20 on, I just love No. 9 (K271) and No 17 (K453).

Teresa
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: gregh87 on June 05, 2008, 01:27:41 PM: Thanks for your input; I'll look more into these. Who is everyone's favorite Mozart pianist?
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: Petter on June 05, 2008, 01:34:58 PM: I´ve listened to Haskil, Uchida and Schiff so far and I love them all. I also like Brendel.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: tompilk on June 05, 2008, 02:46:38 PM: weissenberg's no. 9 is fantastic...
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: rob47 on June 05, 2008, 03:02:54 PM: Quote from: tompilk on June 05, 2008, 02:46:38 PM
weissenberg's no. 9 is fantastic...

QFT 8)
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: webern78 on June 05, 2008, 03:27:04 PM: Quote from: gregh87 on June 05, 2008, 01:27:41 PM
Who is everyone's favorite Mozart pianist?

For me, Robert Casadesus all the way.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: slobone on June 05, 2008, 04:56:15 PM: I gotta go with Perahia for the concertos. But there are a lot of good choices. In fact it's hard to find a pianist who plays Mozart badly, for some reason.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: teresa_b on June 05, 2008, 08:09:41 PM: Quote from: slobone on June 05, 2008, 04:56:15 PM
I gotta go with Perahia for the concertos. But there are a lot of good choices. In fact it's hard to find a pianist who plays Mozart badly, for some reason.

Try Glenn Gould--or possibly Keith Jarrett's forays into Mozart. :P

To be totally honest, although I like Brendel, I find his old recordings of Mozart concertos to be more engaging than his more recent ones. Athough they are gee-whiz fast and light, they seem to suffer a sort of studied, crystalline detachment that lacks depth of emotion.

Teresa
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: slobone on June 09, 2008, 01:47:50 PM: I forgot about Glenn Gould! But he even admitted that he didn't like Mozart. Keith Jarrett I haven't heard.

I used to love Brendel, but I haven't heard him in a while (I realize he's currently dead.)

I guess if I wanted to make a serious study of it, I could sit down with half-a-dozen recordings of the same concerto and really listen for differences in interpretation. But usually when I hear Mozart on the radio, I just find it so refreshing compared to everything else, that I can't help suspending my critical faculties.
Title: Re: Favorite Mozart Concerto
Post by: tompilk on June 09, 2008, 01:56:41 PM: Quote from: slobone on June 09, 2008, 01:47:50 PM
I used to love Brendel, but I haven't heard him in a while (I realize he's currently dead.)
dead? what?