Search - Wanda Landowska, Mozart, C.P.E. Bach :: Treasury of Concert Performances #1

Landowska: the embodiment of the interpretative supremacy!

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 08/07/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

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One of the most important achievements in the XX century was the re launching and rediscovery of the long lost world of 17th and 18th century music and undoubtedly Wanda Landowska was one of the main artistic figures among other no less important ones such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Susanne Lautenbacher or Julian Bream; names as the well reminded Paul Sacher, Andrew Parrot, Trevor Pinnock, and great ensembles as Zagreb's soloists, The English Chamber Orchestra, The Collegium Aureum, the unforgettable contribution made by Karl Haas in the Fifties, The Academy of St. Martin in the fields, I musici among a huge list.



This is a collector item, not only by the astonishing and unerring performances of Wanda but the flaming vehemence and mercurial passion she plays. She makes Mozart sounds sublime and cosmic at unequaled heights. I guess Mozart `s piano concerto No. 13 may be the best available version ever made in the musical history, without restrictions of any sort; Landowska a vehement energy and besides, an inexhaustible dynamism around the whole spirit of this score; she makes it important and transcendental. The K. 482 is excellent; as well as the rest of the double CD.



When you decide acquire this album (as I did it in 1997) you will have made a wise choice. It a peerless musical gem.

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