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Excellent!

Clint Herschel | 04/30/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have had this CD for six years and I still listen to it. The concertos on here are excellent and have catchy tunes. This is very relaxing Classical music and I enjoy it each time I listen to it. You cannot beat the Complete Mozart collections by Naxos. Buy this CD. You can't beat the price and you will absolutely enjoy it."

Delightful concertos, beautifully performed

Gontroppo | Bathurst, NSW Australia | 10/22/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is another of the terrific bargain-priced recordings by Jeno Jando. Both concertos are among the most enjoyable of Mozart's piano concertos.



The CD makes a great program for your first music for the day.



Highly recommended"

Glorious music, superb disc

Leslie Richford | Selsingen, Lower Saxony | 12/31/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a superb disc in every respect, both with regard to Mozart?s glorious music with its unbeatable combination of cheerfulness and melancholy as also with regard to the performance and the engineering which are as good here as on any other Naxos disc I have heard and can compete quite happily with any other discs of this music. (If you prefer historical instruments, you will, of course, have to look elsewhere, perhaps to Steven Lubin and the Mozartean Players.) Jenö Jandó, as soloist, is a wonderful choice for this music: Although he is definitely a virtuoso, he is never ?flashy?, never ?showy?, but subordinates himself to the music and puts his gifts into the service of the whole ? something that this music really demands, as Mozart delicately combines the piano with symphonic orchestral writing with some beautifully done woodwind passages. The Concentus Hungaricus, about which the brief liner notes give no information whatsoever, plays its part in full, too, following the skilled baton of conductor Mátyás Antal to produce a sound that is silky-smooth but never without contours and which is perfectly captured (in September and October 1989) by the Hungarian engineers in the wonderful acoustic of Budapest?s famous Italian Institute. This is, indeed, a very special Naxos disc and thoroughly deserves the three stars awarded it in the Penguin Good CD Guide."