BaL 24.12.16/10.12.22 - Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 in C, K467

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Building a Library: David Owen Norris sifts through some of the available recordings of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K467

Available recordings:-

Géza Anda, Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum
Géza Anda, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Géza Anda, Wiener Symphoniker
Piotr Anderszewski, Sinfonia Varsovia
Martha Argerich, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag
Stefan Askenase, Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm
Vladimir Ashkenazy, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Badura-Skoda, Orchestre Régional de Cannes PACA, Wolfgang Dörner
Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker (DVD/Blu-ray)
Daniel Barenboim, English Chamber Orchestra
Malcom Bilson, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (BaL recommendation 2016)
Jonathan Biss, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (download)
Christina Bjorkoe, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Douglas Bostock (download)
Ronald Brautigam, Die Kolner Akadamie, Michael Alexander Willens
Alfred Brendel, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
Rudolf Buchbinder, Staatskapelle Dresden
Rudolf Buchbinder, Staatskapelle Dresden (DVD/Blu-ray)
Rudolf Buchbinder, Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus, Orchestre National de l'ORF, Jean Martinon (download)
Robert Casadesus. National Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic
Robert Casadesus, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Munch
Robert Casadesus, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Patrick Cohen, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin
Clifford Curzon, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
Clifford Curzon, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Armin Jordan (download)
Danae Dorken, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Lars Vogt
Karl Engel Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Leopold Hager
Tamás Érdi, Budapest Chamber Symphony, Tamás Vásáry
Christoph Eschenbach, London Philharmonic Orchestra (download)
Sergio Fiorentino, London Mozart Players
Annie Fischer, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Annie Fischer, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Ervin Lukacs
Mitsuko Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
Annie Fischer, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
Vilmos Fischer, Vienna Mozart Ensemble, Herbert Kraus (download)
Walter Gieseking, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli
Emil Gilels Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Emil Gilels, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Franz Konwitschny
Alon Goldstein, Rachel Calin, Fine Arts Quartet (arr. Ignaz Lachner)
Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Christian Ihle Hadland, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegård
Ingrid Haebler, London Symphony Orchestra, Witold Rowicki (download)
Derek Han, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman
Myra Hess, University of Illinois Sinfonietta, John M Kuypers
Stephen Hough, Hallé Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
Helen Huang, New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur
Eugene Istomin, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Ingrid Jacoby, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Jeno Jando, Concentus Hungaricus, Andras Ligeti
Keith Jarrett, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
Cyprien Katsaris, Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic, Yoon Kuk Lee
Wilhelm Kempff, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernhard Klee
Matthias Kirschnereit, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie, Frank Beermann
Stephen Kovacevich, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Lili Kraus, Vienna Festival Orchestra, Stephen Simon
Peter Lang, Capella Istropolitana, Christoph Eberle (download)
Dinu Lipatti, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Jan Lisiecki, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Christian Zacharias
Radu Lupu, English Chamber Orchestra, Uri Segal
Linda Nicholson, Cappella Coloniensis, Nicholas Kraemer (download)
John O'Conor, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
Ronan O'Hora, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Carney
James Parker, CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (download)
Murray Perahia, English Chamber Orchestra
Maria João Pires, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado
Maria-João Pires, Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, Lisbon, Theodor Guschlbauer
Maria João Pires, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker
Jean-Bernard Pommier, Sinfonia Varsovia (download)
Vassily Primakov, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Simon Gaudenz
Arthur Rubinstein, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein
Fazil Say, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Howard Griffiths
Staffan Scheja, Stockholm Sinfonietta, Jan-Olav Wedin
András Schiff, Camerata Academica Salzburg, Sandor Végh
Annerose Schmidt, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur (download)
Annerose Schmidt, Dresden Staatskapelle, Otmar Suitner (download)
Artur Schnabel, London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent
Arthur Schoonderwoerd, Cristofori
Rudolf Serkin, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Rudolf Serkin, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Schneider
Howard Shelley, London Mozart Players
Howard Shelley, City of London Sinfonia
Viviana Sofronitsky, Musica Antiqua Collegium Varsoviense, Tadeusz Karolak
Christoph Soldan, Silesian Chamber Orchestra, Pawel Przytocki (download)
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia (download)
Svetlana Stanceva, Mozart Festival Orchestra, Alberto Lizzio (download)
Hai-Kyung Suh, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Maria Tipo, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Jonel Perlea
Fou Ts'ong, Sinfonia Varsovia
Mitsuko Uchida, The Cleveland Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
Dinorah Varsi (BaL recommendation 2022)
Tamas Vasary, Philharmonia Orchestra (download)
Ilana Vered, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster (CD & Vinyl)
Stefan Vladar, Salzburg Camerata
Lars Vogt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Mikhail Voskresensky, Pavel Slobodkin Centre Moscow Chamber orchestra, Leonid Nikolaev
Alexis Weissenberg, Wiener Symphoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini
Klara Wurtz, Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen
Christian Zacharias, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Christian Zacharias, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, David Zinman
Haiou Zhang, Heidelberger Sinfoniker, Thomas Fey

[Bryn]

Looks like a couple of my favourites, Demus and Immerseel, have fallen out of current availability.

[Nick Armstrong]

Just been revisiting Mozart piano concertos, principally No 23, but No 21 has figured too. I come back time and again to Christian Zacharias with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra on MDG (expensive individual discs, but I invested in the box of all 9 of the discs he recorded for about £30 recently). He gets all sorts of things right, and the recordings are a delight. In No 21, he takes the middle movement in flowing 1-in-a-bar style - slower versions now seem self-indulgent to me.

Even more fleet approach taken in the Christian Ihle Hadland / Oslo Philharmonic / Engegård recording on Simax - I find the orchestral accompaniment too 'big' and the slow movement too perfunctory, but the pianism is so infectious and the recording so good that I listen to it frequently, plus you get Britten's cadenzas in the other concerto recorded, K 482

[richardfinegold]

Casadesus/Szell has long been my favorite, but the Istomin recording which is a high Res download, is a nice performance and sounds amazing

[richardfinegold]

Just been revisiting Mozart piano concertos, principally No 23, but No 21 has figured too. I come back time and again to Christian Zacharias with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra on MDG (expensive individual discs, but I invested in the box of all 9 of the discs he recorded for about £30 recently). He gets all sorts of things right, and the recordings are a delight. In No 21, he takes the middle movement in flowing 1-in-a-bar style - slower versions now seem self-indulgent to me.

Even more fleet approach taken in the Christian Ihle Hadland / Oslo Philharmonic / Engegård recording on Simax - I find the orchestral accompaniment too 'big' and the slow movement too perfunctory, but the pianism is so infectious and the recording so good that I listen to it frequently, plus you get Britten's cadenzas in the other concerto recorded, K 482

Zachariah set is excellent, and is another sonic blockbuster

[Alison]

I can recall the Ashkenazy/Philharmonia version winning when Roger Nichols did a BAL many years ago.

Expect DON to dwell on the detail at the expense of the overview.

[BBMmk2]

Ah well! They could have something more seasonal?!?!?

[Alison]

Ah well! They could have something more seasonal?!?!?

No, the great works are for all seasons BBM!!

Just about my favourite WAM piano concerto.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Christmas every day with Mozart!

[CallMePaul]

Expect DON to dwell on the detail at the expense of the overview.

On past form he is likely to give short shrift to fortepiano performances too. I bought the Barenboim/ Berlin box set some years ago at a knock-down price but rarely listen to any of these as my taste in Mozart performances has changed over time.

Also, why do the producers of this programme think that performers make good critics? DON is not too bad but I have heard some awful ones (no names but a female cellist stands out in particular for slagging off almost all her colleagues' performances of the Walton concerto a few years back). I am interested in a fortepiano performance but there appear to be few to choose from. Naybe BIS will box the Brautigan performances of all the concerti or do I wait for Bezuidenhout to reach this ion his ongoing cycle?

[Alison]

To be fair DON is interesting but not really a reliable library builder.

Come back Stephen Plaistow!

[Barbirollians]

To be fair DON is interesting but not really a reliable library builder.

Come back Stephen Plaistow!

Agree entirely he often gives an illuminating talk and the chooses a bizarre winner .

I had no idea Argerich had ever recorded this I thought 18,20 and 25 were the only Mozart solo concertos she played - I see it is a 1960 live recording on Doremi

Annie Fischer recorded 21 and 22 with Sawallisch and 20 and 23 with Boult - I do not think there is a duplicate with him of 21 ?

I would always want Perahia, Lupu, Annie F , Lipatti and Pires.

[Bryn]

I am interested in a fortepiano performance but there appear to be few to choose from. Naybe BIS will box the Brautigan performances of all the concerti or do I wait for Bezuidenhout to reach this ion his ongoing cycle?

The Sofronitsky survey is well worth considering, played on one of hubby's Walter copies.

[Richard Barrett]

I am interested in a fortepiano performance but there appear to be few to choose from.

I have two sets, Immerseel which is a little soft-focus maybe, and Bilson+Gardiner which is quite the opposite. I'm not sure which I prefer. I certainly prefer both to anything involving "modern" pianos.

[gurnemanz]

My LP purchase about 50 years ago was Andor Foldes on DG cheapo label Heliodor - long defunct but very good as far as I recall. First Cd was Howard Shelley with City of London Sinfonia - still a favourite version.