Mozart - Music for Piano: Friedrich Gulda

Mozart - Music for Piano: Friedrich Gulda


Starring:Friedrich Gulda, János Darvas
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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The acclaimed pianist Friedrich Gulda spent the majority of his professional life focusing primarily on the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Gulda expressed that only through this intensive, decades long exploration, could one truly come to understand and appropriately convey the real nature of Mozart's compositions. Gulda is renowned worldwide as the most exciting and significant interpreter of Mozart in the 20th century. Here Gulda performs on solo piano some of the most popular compositions of Mozart.
Mozart - Music for Piano: Friedrich Gulda
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • There is Much Poetry Here
  • great pianist roughly treated by the cameras
Mozart - Music for Piano: Friedrich Gulda
Starring: Friedrich Gulda , and János Darvas
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000059TP8
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Description

The acclaimed pianist Friedrich Gulda spent the majority of his professional life focusing primarily on the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Gulda expressed that only through this intensive, decades long exploration, could one truly come to understand and appropriately convey the real nature of Mozart's compositions. Gulda is renowned worldwide as the most exciting and significant interpreter of Mozart in the 20th century. Here Gulda performs on solo piano some of the most popular compositions of Mozart.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars There is Much Poetry Here.......2003-02-09

It seems that some audience are distracted by the form this recital took. But for those who don't relish Gulda's touch or his sound, they should note tha by this stage, his sound is sublime: everything in perfect balance and harmony, passion and intellect, poetry and structure etc which is simply awe-inspiring. Needless to say, his mastery of the keyborad is superb, his polyphonic lines are beautiful, his playing lyrical and colourful, and he is very rhythmic and dynamic as usual. And above all, his sense of structure is awefully strong that brings him close to Michelangeli or even Rachmaninov.

As far as his Mozart is concerned, he is on par with Horszowski, each excells in a different way. Very Gulda is very easy listening and ear catching as his readings would go directly to your heart. A very good and enjoyable performance indeed. The camerawork here is perfect, with a lot of coverage of the hands taken from a comfortable angle. And the recorded sound is good enough to carry through Gulda's readings and colours.

I also recommend audience to look for his Beethoven No.5 Piano Concerto where he conducts on the piano the Munich Philharmonic: a most gratifying performance which compared favourably with the performance by Zimermann/Bernstein. But for the Mozart sonatas that followed, they were filmed when Gulda was so old. Even though he was almost as discipined as Geiseking's Mozart, he was nonetheless a bit more passionate, and with life almost coming to an end, there is a sense of bitterness behind...

2 out of 5 stars great pianist roughly treated by the cameras.......2001-04-26

gulda, who died recently,is shown playing some mozart solos on this 58 minute dvd program from 1990. he gives great pleasure but the visuals are too variable and often distracting - too many visible mikes, speakers, pianos plus unnecessary announcements from the artist. this looks like carelessness to me. if you want to see this pianist in performance a better bet is his dvd of the k.466 and k.537 concerti.

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