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Mozart - Great Piano Concertos, Volume Three / Radu Lupu, Christian Zacharias, Ivan Klansky
Mozart - Great Piano Concertos Volume Three / Radu Lupu Christian Zacharias Ivan Klansky
Actors: Mozart, Zacharias, Lupu, Klansky, Gelmetti
Genres: Music Video & Concerts, Musicals & Performing Arts
NR     2005     1hr 20min


     
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Actors: Mozart, Zacharias, Lupu, Klansky, Gelmetti
Genres: Music Video & Concerts, Musicals & Performing Arts
Sub-Genres: Music Video & Concerts, Classical
Studio: Euroarts
Format: DVD - Color
DVD Release Date: 10/18/2005
Original Release Date: 01/01/2005
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2005
Release Year: 2005
Run Time: 1hr 20min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0
Edition: Classical
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English
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Three Great Pianists in Three Mozart Concerti
J Scott Morrison | Middlebury VT, USA | 11/21/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This DVD is one of a series of the Mozart piano concertos recorded about fifteen years ago in gorgeous European venues each featuring a different pianist, conductor and orchestra. This one has three of the finest pianists playing these days: Radu Lupu, Christian Zacharias and Ivan Klánský. And three fine conductors: David Zinman, Jiri Behlolavek, and Gianluigi Gelmetti.

Christian Zacharias has become rather a cult figure in recent years. He is not as well-known as some but among piano cognoscenti he is extremely well-regarded. In this DVD the very young Zacharias plays the early concerto, No. 6 in B Flat, K. 238. It is not one of Mozart's most popular concerti, nor should it be; it is more galant and easy-to-take than profound or moving. But it is Mozart, after all, and it has many felicities that no other composer could provide. For instance, the Andante movement has two of those patented singing Mozartean melodies; Schubert must certainly have known this concerto, I'm guessing. Another unusual thing about this concerto written solely as a crowd-pleaser is that all three movements end quietly. Zacharias, noted for his extremely clean and neatly articulated playing (he's a marvelous Scarlatti player, for instance) is perfect for this work. Listen to the pearly runs in both outer movements. Gelmetti, known to me primarily as an opera conductor, along with his orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony, gives the soloist sensitive support.

Radu Lupu is surely one of the most poetic pianists alive. I treasure the one concert in which I heard him play, and among my desert island discs is the CD of four-hand and two piano music of Mozart and Schubert (the heavenly Fantasia in F Minor, D. 940, for piano four-hands) played by Lupu and Murray Perahia. Lupu's address at the piano reminds me of that of Artur Rubinstein. He is a short man who sits absolutely upright at the keyboard, seemingly needing only his fingers to make his effects. In this performance, one of the greatest I've ever heard of the No. 19 in F Major, K459, he seems completely taken over by the music. His technique is gigantic, his runs and arpeggios not only clean and even, but subtly nuanced. He has an equal partner in David Zinman, one of my favorite conductors, and the German Chamber Philharmonic, a group of extremely talented young players.

Least known among these three pianists is the Czech artist, Ivan Klánský. I've never heard him live, but remember vividly a telecast years ago of him playing the Beethoven Fourth Concerto, and I recall making a note that I must find out more about him. I treasure a recording he made of Schubert Impromptus on Supraphon. Here he is playing Mozart's most-played concerto, the dramatic No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466. His take is generally more poetic than most, at least in the first two movements. His touch is extremely nuanced, as if each note has been thoughtfully placed by him in its specific context. There is drama aplenty, though, in the two cadenzas that Mr Klánský wrote for the concerto, rather daring considering almost all pianists use the cadenzas Beethoven wrote (or, a distant second, those written by Hummel). Klánský's cadenzas are not only extremely fine, they are surprisingly dramatic, especially so the one for the third movement, which is for left hand alone (and quite a barn-burner, I must say). What a pleasure to encounter these evidences of Klánský's compositional skills. The glorious middle movement is played as if the pianist were in a trance, a dream of bucolic serenity. One is not then prepared for the titanic opening of the third movement (piano alone -- and here Klánský divides the upward surging opening arpeggio between the hands, making for a more ferocious attack) and its ensuing drama. Only with the coda, where piano and orchestra resolve any conflict with a resolution in sunny D major, does any conflict subside. Jiri Behlolavek and the Virtuosi di Praga are with him all the way. Quite a performance.

The venues for the three concerti are, in order, Rococo Hall of the Schwetzingen Castle; Sophiensaal, Munich; and Rittersaal of the Palais Waldstein, Prague.

If you had to pick only one of this series of Mozart concerto DVDs (of the three I've seen so far) this is the one I'd choose. All three performances are exceptional.

Scott Morrison"
Exquisite music with so-so visuals
J. King | North Florida | 03/22/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)

"I'll leave the detailed musical attributes of this DVD to the fine review previously posted by another. I have several concert DVDs and thought that the camera angles and general editing for this particular selection left me hoping for more. The obligatory break-aways to select orchestra members were there, although a bit redundant. But the more disappointing issue was the limited camera views of the solo pianist with either a side shot zoomed in to about 10-12 feet away or a repeated lengthy head-on view of the pianist from the chest up, often fixated through complete piano passages. Personally, I would rather have seen more over-the-shoulder angles and more focus on the pianists' handiwork rather than dwelling on their facial expressions, both animated and stoic, depending on the performer. Five stars for the music and three to four stars for the camera work."