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Review title: ANOTHER FAILED NOVELTY ITEM
Product review: This recording and Gardiner's complete Mozart concerti with Bilson are failed experiments. In the laughable Mozart recordings he even makes matters worse by insisting that the piano be "just another instrument" in the orchestra. So we have a "copy" of a primitive fortepiano recorded at a considerable distance. Can this be how Mozart expected to make his name and fame, playing a toy piano way off in the background? It sounds like someone plucking rubber bands. Later fortepianos (e.g. the Grafs from the 1820's) began to develop some tone and volume. But even they cannot hold their own against a full orchestra.A more interesting experiment than this recording is Levin's recording of a chamber version of Beethoven's 4th with a handful of accompanying instruments. It's no substitute for the real thing, but at least it works on its own terms.
