A wanderer between worlds: born in Lyon, pianist Walter Gieseking studied the piano in Hanover and soon embarked on a world career as a soloist- first in Europe, then in the U SA. He was an acknowledged master of the French repertoire- his recordings of piano works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy are legendary. Gieseking’s playing lived from his accuracy and gift of observation, but also from being at home in various European cultures and possessing an awareness of widely differing musical forms, which was reflected in a very wide repertoire extending beyond the classics to composers then less well-known, such as Hindemith, Schoenberg, Busoni and Szymanowski. His piano technique revealed a hitherto unknown lightness. Gieseking translated feelings effortlessly into physical movement, resulting in a unique emotional immediacy of sound. The combination of precision and such unbridled devotion again proved its worth in Walter Gieseking’s recording of Mozart’s piano works, music which demands the highest technical ability alongside an essential lightness in its acoustic. The present complete recording illustrates why Walter Gieseking must necessarily be considered one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century.

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Mozart's Piano Quartets K 478 and 493 with the wonderful German Gaede String Trio and the outstanding Austrian pianist Markus Schirmer: this is pure chamber music delight, highly sensitive and exciting, sensual and fresh as the dew, clever in it's formal and concertante calculation: here Mozart allows for both common obscurity and lively dialogue. (Tirol online)

Gordan Nikolic writes: "The first time I heard "the" G Minor Symphony as "on-hold" music on the telephone, I thought, "Oh dear, another piece spoilt forever." You're wanting to complain to your telephone provider about your last bill and you hear this racket! But there is a remedy. You just need to listen a little further than the clip from the on-hold music. There are so many different moods: melancholy, grief, rage, consolation. And everything is woven together with such ingenuity and originality! It may seem strange at first to combine this with the blissful togetherness of the Sinfonia Concertante, but on reflection it makes sense. Whilst the slow movement of the G Minor Symphony (in the same key as the Sinfonia Concertante) brightens the mood of the other movements, the melancholic slow movement of the Sinfonia Concertante casts a shade over the lightness of the outer movements. It's not all difficult, nor is it all straightforward. Just like real life."

You can imagine the scene when listening in stereo: The orchestra, including the soloist, sits in a big circle around the microphones. Of course, the multi-channel version in TACET Real SS is much clearer even than what you would experience were you sitting in the room. What a fun experience for�all of�the musicians, and now all listeners! Gordan Nikolic, soloist and leader of the recording, captivates everyone. He feels entirely at home with Mozart and he has a love for the unique and eccentric things in the music. While in the fast movements climbing and clambering around on the strings like a child at the playground, in the slow ones he caresses his violin like a hug.

Get yourself vaccinated in time! The rococo red Mozart flood is looming on the horizon. In jubilee year it will bring US a plague of catchy tunes, also known as earworms, which you are advised to immunize yourself against to save your ear passages from clogging up. Particular risk of infection is expected from Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K 525 [.....]It is as if the veins of a well-preserved mummy long frozen in glacier ice were to be refilled with living blood and spirits and return to life from eternal cryofication. At one point Mozart jumps so cheekily from G major to E flat major that one cannot he laughing. The old surprises can still spring themselves on US as if they were new. This last movement might be famous but it is too nimble to whistle along to and too lively to be an earworm". So it is the best immunization, and the treatment can, by the way, be applied to the surround sound listener via five speakers." (Die Zeit, Volker Hagedorn)

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Direction de production: Jean Gibaud L’originalite de cet enregistrement est de nous proposer, A la suite des celebrissimes Quatuors avec flûte, le KV 370, composes pour le hautbois la transcription pour flûte (l’œuvre reste dans sa tonalite originale).

Ce coffret comprend les cinq concertos pour violon composes par Mozart, interpretes volontairement sur un mode academique par Michaël Zuber. Cet ouvrage fait suite A l’integrale des etudes de Fernando Sor, des etudes XXe siecle de Guy Touvron, en inscriva