Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 4 (2009)

This disc is part of a Mozart concerto cycle being issued by German pianist Christian Zacharias conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. Several of the discs have been exceptional, and the musicianship here maintains the high level of the earlier releases in the series. The interpretations, however, are a bit unorthodox, so sample well and consider. The audiophile sound from the MDG label continues to be an attraction in itself; the sonics of Lausanne's moderate-sized and heavily acoustically tweaked Salle Métropole ... Read More

This disc is part of a Mozart concerto cycle being issued by German pianist Christian Zacharias conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. Several of the discs have been exceptional, and the musicianship here maintains the high level of the earlier releases in the series. The interpretations, however, are a bit unorthodox, so sample well and consider. The audiophile sound from the MDG label continues to be an attraction in itself; the sonics of Lausanne's moderate-sized and heavily acoustically tweaked Salle Métropole concert hall have awesome clarity and depth. The contrast between MDG's approach -- it seeks out halls that are musically and historically appropriate -- and those of engineers who simply choose the most acoustically live church in the immediate area could not be clearer and could not reflect better on this small German label. Zacharias has favored a liquid but clean sound with very little pedal, generally quite restrained but leaving room for little outbursts of expression as a... Read Less

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