Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Martin Helmchen
Orchestra: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Gordan Nikolić
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5186508
Release: 2013
Size: 347 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K450
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Larghetto
06. III. Allegro
In September 2007 PentaTone released the first album of Martin Helmchen. It was also a disc with Mozart concertos (No.24 and No. 13; catalogue number PTC5186305). Over the last 6 years Martin Helmchen’s career has further developed. He performs with major orchestras and conductors.
What you have here is an acoustic well suited to Mozart, with a nice halo of resonance which doesn’t echo eternally, but helps those legato lines and subtleties of dynamic and phrasing which make the simplest-seeming of music so effective.