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Ten pianists, briefly.(MUSIC)(Sound recording review)
As I've argued before, this is not a great age for pianists--but there are great pianists in it, and many good ones. We'll touch on ten pianists, looking in on their recent recordings.
They're recording Mozart concertos like mad. As you know, this is a "Mozart year," the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. Mozart recordings are plentiful in any year; this year there is a veritable glut.
The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard has put three concertos on a Warner Classics CD. He has an organizing principle, too: These are concertos in B flat. Mozart wrote four in that key, and they're all here, except for No. 18, K. 456. The very last Mozart piano concerto is in B flat: No. 27, K. 595. We tend to invest a lot in this concerto, because it's the last one. We hear in it something especially profound, and sad. But it's important to remember that Mozart didn't intend K. 595 to be his last piano concerto--just as he didn't intend the "Jupiter" to be his last symphony.
It just worked out that way, too bad for US.
Aimard's orchestra is the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which he himself directs (from the keyboard). He has very much absorbed the "period" style, and his playing can be overly ...
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