The aesthetics of Zacharias piano is quite close to that of Barenboim or Pires-DGG, but management is different tempi Barenboim. The contrasts of tempi between fast movements and slow movements are less pronounced, slow movements are not hanging out with Zacharias, who lacks the romantic tendencies of his colleague EMI. Moreover, Zacharias, great technician course, certainly not the stunning virtuosity of the same. After getting accustomed to Pires (both versions) and Barenboim, whose achievements I knew it before, I am unpleasantly surprised by austerity, lack of grace, and I want to think of a tenor whose the voice was so ungrateful, but superior intelligence, Peter Schreier. However, once you have taken the time to get into this design shows that it works and that without questions, complications added to music or assignment, the meaning of each movement is given. Christian Zacharias is perhaps austere, but it is modest to music and reflected the character of each of these sonatas. I specify that it is not only the recovery in sonata form, but also the great recovery (development and recapitulation). Therefore, differences in timing for certain sonatas with the first version Pires, fast and does not always make the resumption of the exhibition, can be impressive.
There are great successes, such as the Sonata K. 576, I finally preferred to other interpretations with which I had compared. But this integral has a defect is that it does not distinguish sufficiently between the different periods créatices Mozart, knows what Barenboim and superiorly to a lesser extent Pires; that is why after much hesitation, I finally decided to remove a star. The sonatas of early experience the style of the following, to be precise. That said, there may be some surprises even for these sonatas, and direct and rapid way in which are treated the final changes in the Sonata in D major K.284. Finally, the buyer of these discs can be ensured to gain confidence version of Mozart sonatas, although there are others.
