Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin

Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin

Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin
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Actor: Daniel Barenboim
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 1020 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: EMI Classics

Movie Reviews of Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin

Movie Review: Dull camera work; perfunctory performances
Summary: 1 Stars

I have always thought that Daniel Barenboim has all along been overrated as a pianist, since the early 1970's.
True that he is a 'star' pianist; with all the associations with his former wife and all the stories; but frankly, apart from that, he has never attained maestro status in the strict sense of the word. He has crossed over to conducting this last decade, and his performance at the keyboard rightfully and logically diminished even further in terms of luster and style.
These Beethoven sonatas, whatever you might call it, is in no way satisfying in that they are rather graceless and glacial all in one.
Graceless in that the pianist seems not to pay heed to the sonics but just concentrates on the pyro-techniques. Nowhere could you find a more ponderous sounding set of Beethoven sonatas: just listen to the end of each phrase, each harmonic structure. May be he has a reason for this, but I find the blurring and the clamouring very much distasteful, and could under no circumstances imagine that these are the composer's wishes.
One saving aspect of this set is the 'master classes' - interesting, though you doubt if it is really that instructive.

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