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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There is a simple playful joy to this recording and the recording is fantastic and is a must get for any high end audio listener out there. The light and shade is playful and makes the complexity of the score lift and relax you. The young fingers at the piano to me bring me to what Mozart himself would have believed in.
I am a keen fan of Piano and liked this very much well worth getting.
I am a keen fan of Piano and liked this very much well worth getting.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Technically these pieces are played, well, alright I guess. But hey, this is Mozart. Somewhere along the line the performer forgot to make them sparkling. This performance doesn't make me do a few spiritually dancing steps. Sorry, too mediocre. As a performer of Bach, I simply love David Fray. But Mozart? Thank You, no thanks.
4 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Two magnificent Mozart Concertos, a wonderful pairing, but some of the dullest and most unfocused Mozart playing I've heard in a long time.
In Fray's favour, he does have control of some moments of poetry - he delivers a nicely-shaped, if weedy, line at times. On this front, though, he never 'soars' and allows the gorgeous piano writing to sing through. It's as if he is a self-conscious pianist, unsure of purpose.
What really bothers me most about this playing is the inability to communicate the power of the music. Especially in Concerto 25 - it has been called 'Olympian' and Mozart's 'Emperor' Concerto. Fray portrays none of this grandeur - the climaxes are, at most, weak, and the music does not pulsate forward - the filigree fingerwork seems sluggish and there is a distinct lack of crispness, especially in much of the left hand passage-work. And he simply does not relish the wonderful and adventurous slithering chromaticism.
Ensemble with orchestra seems at best just OK, and, at worst (quite a lot of the time) rather confused. It feels as if the orchestra were inhibited and playing as though on egg shells. Somehow this feels as if there was not a good rapport between soloist and orchestra - a pity, as this let down poor Mozart.
In all, this is a po-faced performance and certainly not one that has in any way endeared me to Fray's playing.
In Fray's favour, he does have control of some moments of poetry - he delivers a nicely-shaped, if weedy, line at times. On this front, though, he never 'soars' and allows the gorgeous piano writing to sing through. It's as if he is a self-conscious pianist, unsure of purpose.
What really bothers me most about this playing is the inability to communicate the power of the music. Especially in Concerto 25 - it has been called 'Olympian' and Mozart's 'Emperor' Concerto. Fray portrays none of this grandeur - the climaxes are, at most, weak, and the music does not pulsate forward - the filigree fingerwork seems sluggish and there is a distinct lack of crispness, especially in much of the left hand passage-work. And he simply does not relish the wonderful and adventurous slithering chromaticism.
Ensemble with orchestra seems at best just OK, and, at worst (quite a lot of the time) rather confused. It feels as if the orchestra were inhibited and playing as though on egg shells. Somehow this feels as if there was not a good rapport between soloist and orchestra - a pity, as this let down poor Mozart.
In all, this is a po-faced performance and certainly not one that has in any way endeared me to Fray's playing.
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