Who's your favourite Mozart perfomer? As for me, I'd go for Géza Anda, although Mitsuko Uchida's also quite good with Mozart.
. Jeno Jano and Idil Biret, for example, are distinctly "worse" than Uchida and Brendel. With Mozart, it's just all out there.
Who's your favourite Mozart perfomer?
i like murray perahia's.
De Larrocha isn't too bad either, but why does she play appogiaturas before the beat where everybody else is playing them on the beat? Granted, I haven't gone through all sonatas to check carefully. A pianist of that caliber must make this a conscious decision, I wonder why.
Sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't; she's an artist who does what she feels, and plays the appogiaturas the way she thinks they sound better, no matter what scholarship dictates. She is not an intellectual performer, she follows her heart. Also, she was trained in the pre WW2 school of Mozart playing, which didn't understand or even care about the harmonic /melodic reasons for the ornaments to be in their proper place. By the way,she also frequently trills starting on the principal note, not the note above, but sometimes the trills are correct; sometimes her appogiaturas ARE before the beat! I think she is aware of correct ornamentation, but she just does what she feels like, and does not care about the likes of you and I quibbling about these things in her records! Good for her! I respect what you're saying, ornaments should be executed the way C.P.E. Bach and Turk instruct us to,but this is an artist I love so much that I had to stick up for her. Ornamentation aside, what do you think of her Mozart, the diamond scales and the coloratura-like phrasing, the pathos, the love of life? Oh God, the adjectives, time to stop.... Sorry, with this artist it's not a logical issue with me....