German label MDG specializes in state-of-the-art audiophile recordings, often of unfamiliar music, but this disc is a historical reissue touching on the work of a pianist who died young, in an 1976 auto crash, but not young enough to become a legend. The program combines performances from 1971 (the Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, K. 449) and 1965 (the Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K.459) with a pair of Stuttgart orchestras. German pianist Werner Haas was much admired during his lifetime, although not for Mozart; ...
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German label MDG specializes in state-of-the-art audiophile recordings, often of unfamiliar music, but this disc is a historical reissue touching on the work of a pianist who died young, in an 1976 auto crash, but not young enough to become a legend. The program combines performances from 1971 (the Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, K. 449) and 1965 (the Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K.459) with a pair of Stuttgart orchestras. German pianist Werner Haas was much admired during his lifetime, although not for Mozart; his tastes and talents ran to the later Romantics and to the Impressionist repertoire of his teacher, Walter Gieseking. As a Mozartian he had a style not much heard these days: smooth, unified, and rather simple, devoid of strong expression and differentiation of articulation. Put together with conductor Karl Münchinger and his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, those linchpins of every collection of cheap Mozart LPs in the 1970s, the result is one of the least lively versions of the Piano...
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Add this copy of Piano Concertos Kv 449 & 459 to cart. $15.94, like new condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by MDG.
