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fergus wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:

Fortepianist expert Arthur Schooderwoerd has just moved to the Accent label and it seems he´s starting a new Mozart Piano Concertos cycle. He recorded a few years ago a startling but absorbing Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle (remember them Fergus?) where he played them not only in fortepianos but with the original number of musicians that Beethoven used, often only a couple of violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, double bass and winds.
Here he does the same for Mozart, making these concertos almost chamber music.
The results are startling too, but often revealing.

I do indeed remember those versions of the Beethoven Piano Concertos by Schooderwoerd Pepe and they were very different! That looks like a very intriguing series of the Mozart Piano Concertos and perhaps Schooderwoerd's approach might be more suitable to Mozart's music?

DonKC wrote:One of the more enjoyable "classic" Beethoven cycles:

Symphony # 7, 8 and 4

Cluytens, Berlin Philharmonic EMI

Jose Echenique wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:


It works in a different way in Mozart, but as in the Beethoven concertos the approach offers revealing results. Schooderwoerd is no Krystian Zimerman of course, but he knows the fortepiano and relishes in what was DIFFERENT about it, and doesn´t try to make it sound like a modern piano. The Ensemble Cristofori, as in the Beethoven concertos play splendidly.

Seán wrote:

DonKC wrote:One of the more enjoyable "classic" Beethoven cycles:

Symphony # 7, 8 and 4

Cluytens, Berlin Philharmonic EMI

Well, it's definitely one of my favourite cycles.