Rating: 3/5
Review:
Disappointing
I'm afraid I'm not all that keen on this set. It has its moments, but overall I was rather
disappointed.
Suh Hai-Kyung is plainly a talented pianist with the
technique to deal with some of the demanding passages in these concertos, but I
find there's an empathy and expressiveness missing in a lot of places. Take the D minor Concerto, K466, for
example. The dark drama of the opening
movement never quite becomes really dark or dramatic for me, and the exquisite
second movement Romance just sounds…well…a bit ordinary, somehow. I don't get any of the flowing beauty which
Brendel, Perahia, Uchida and others bring to it and the whole thing sounds just
a bit mechanical to me. I certainly
don't want grand romantic gestures, but Mozart's music does need a subtle
expressiveness if it is really to speak to me.
The orchestral work is very good under Neville Marriner and
Suh's approach works much better in some of the lively rondo finales, so it's
not all bad news, but I have to say that I'll be sticking with my already
much-loved versions. I would recommend
sets by Mitsuko Uchida or Murray Perahia well before this, and I can't give it
much of a recommendation.
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