Mozart:Piano Concertos [Rudolf Buchbinder; Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Buchbinder] [C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT: BLU RAY] [Blu-ray]

My First Impression, listening on Sennheiser HD650 Headphones powered by a 1 Watt Musical Fidelity (Tube/Valve) Headphone Amp and watching my little 46" Sony TV, was of the most vibrant readings of ANY Mozart Piano Concertos I have experienced in my 75 years on Planet Earth. Let's hope this Team will do ALL of Mozart's Piano Concertos on Blu-Ray, and eventually release them on 4K / UHD when that technology matures and becomes affordable. Buchbinder and his Team play with a Precision and Passion which exceeds any other small orchestra I've heard and seen on Blu-Ray. Well done!NOTE: There are a couple of Negative Reviews on Amazon.com indicating EXTREMELY poor Audio. Sorry, but even with my Bryston 1,000 Watt Monoblock 28BSST(Squared) Amplifiers driving a pair Quad 2905 Electrostatics (Ultra-Revealing!) I can only say that what you see is what you hear: A VW Assembly Line setting with lots of Glass and Canadian Maple Hardwood Floors - it's bright, but not objectionable! My Digital-To-Analog Converter is the Bryston BDA-2, and I'm sure the new BDA-3 will make it even smoother, once I can afford it... Better haul out, dust off, and fire up your old Tube Amps, Gentlemen, or invest in a better DAC!NOTE #2 You will notice that this Blu-Ray is the first one Recorded in 4K, both Audio & Video, and it will probably be one of the first to be released when 4K (aka UHD, or Ultra High Definition) comes on the Market. Note # 3 (Nov 5th/2016) I recently discovered that True UHD isn't just double the # of Pixels, it also includes a wider range of Colours, for more colour Accuracy. Personally, I feel that Blu-Ray (1080 Progressive/1080p) is a Moving Target, as it seems to include steady improvements in Audio & Video. My advice is to keep going with Blu-Ray until you see and hear a dramatic improvement with True UHD, and prices of Software & Hardware are more reasonable.More of this anon, once my Friends and I have had a chance to get over the initial shock of this spectacular new level of Mozart Performance! I would have to assume that Mozart is looking down from his corner of Musical Heaven and grinning from ear to ear...

A good performance

Un concert des concertos de Mozart pour piano dans une immense usines d'automobile est complètement inadequat . L'orchestre et les auditeurs se sont fait une toute petite place au milieu des monstrueux robots de l'usine . Est ce une illusiion ou une réalité mais le piano donne un son metallique Tout ceci est un gachis alors que l'orchestre est bon , le soliste aussi mais l'image bleutée sombre n'est pas plaisante

gute Klangqualität

très bon disque musique bien orchestre cela est plutôt un DVD qu un disque impeccable merci je recommande ce disque aux lecteurs

superbe interprétation je vous remercie infinient et je remercie evidemment Buchbinder!!!

place is bad

Fabulous presentation by a world class pianist and his orchestral colleagues. I once heard Andre Previn say that to properly appreciate Mozart's music one had to be at least 50 years old. Well, I'm 73 now and have never heard it better. Run, don't walk to get your copy of this dvd.

Masterpiece

superb sound quality, wonderful performance

Wonderful performance with outstanding sound quality.

After Buchbinder's great Beethoven concertos, I was ready for equally great Mozart. Here we have a great pianist and orchestra combining with 3of Wolfgang's best concertos along with the same recording team----what could go wrong? Unfortunately, someone decided that it would be cool torecord at one end of a Volkswagen factory that has floor-to-ceiling glass windows, a hard surface shiny floor and lots of metal robots sitting around.Since the accompaniment is just a large chamber orchestra, it was imperative that it be heard. But instead we have the piano much too loud, withthe highs bouncing off all the hard surfaces (I could see no attempt to mitigate the problem with sound absorbing materials.) The result is tominimize the grating high frequencies by decreasing the volume almost to background level, and I don't pay 40 bucks for background. Anotherresult is that the orchestra also gets pushed down and sounds thin. When the double bases hit the notes---nothing. To hear how it would sound ina good hall, listen to the 2nd movement of Buchbinder's Emperor concerto: that's how strings should sound and how orchestra/piano balanceshould be! If a rating of 2 1/2 stars was available, that's what I'd use.On a side note, all 3 concertos are scored without the clarinet, even though #27 was composed in Mozart's last year of life. He discovered theclarinet late and then wrote the great clarinet concerto. I'll bet he would have used it in the piano concertos to great effect had it come along alittle earlier.

Tant pis pour les pédants qui pensent que la musique de Mozart n'appartient qu'aux salonnards ! Je veux bien entendre ( plutôt qu'écouter, certes ) du Mozart jusque dans l'ascenseur de mon parking aérien ... L'essentiel, à mes yeux, c'est le plaisir que partagent les musiciens qui le jouent et la recherche d'authenticité. En l'occurrence, je trouve l'acoustique bonne , l'image de qualité et surtout l'interprétation parfaite.