Perahia Plays and Conducts Mozart Piano Concerto 20 & 27: English Chamber Orchestra
During the 1970s and '80s, Murray Perahia recorded all the Mozart piano concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducting from the keyboard. His playing here is on the highest level--vibrant, unfailingly beautiful, wonderfully acute in its grasp of style and expression. Equally outstanding is the work of the ECO, which turns in an effortlessly brilliant performance of both scores. The recorded sound, while not quite as radiant as the music making, is consistently good and well balanced.--Ted Libbey