Complete Works for Piano Solo | Classical Music Sheet Collection | Perfect for Performances, Practice & Music Lovers

Absolutely fabulous. Who thought the fortepiano could be thrilling? Honestly, I have other "regrettable" fortepiano performances--whole sets in fact. Hearing this traversal emboldens me to revisit them. Maybe I had them all wrong? The fortepiano can sound inexpressive and academic. But here, nothing could be further from the truth. Although Brautigam is capable of fleetness, what wins the day here is his emphatic, passionate playing. This is such a WOW recording that I can recommend it to you without reservation. It carries you away like some kind of time machine, invoking nostalgia for an era you could not possibly have experienced. These 10 discs--yours for only about $7 each here--are a phenomenal deal, if you want this huge a dose of Mozart keyboard compositions, some of which will be familiar, some quite obscure. These performances were highly recommended by the critics when originally released, and are very nicely recorded. Great listening, magical in fact.UPDATE: Here's a comment that might strike some as strange. I have a wonderful system in my living room, and in my bedroom one that's really pretty good. This does not sound so good when played through the latter system. A great deal of the sonic dimension the fortepiano can generate gets "flattened" into something that merely sounds like a harpsichord, instead of the "everything-piano" you hear in Brautigam's hands. I mention this in case you've got what Alex in A Clockwork Orange famously described as a "portable picnic player." If so, buy one of the many excellent versions for modern piano instead.