Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Orchestra: Manchester Camerata
Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN10958
Release: 2017
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-Flat Major, K. 449
01. I. Allegro vivace – Cadenza
02. II. Andantino
03. III. Allegro ma non troppo
Diventimento in D Major, K. 136
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante
06. III. Presto
Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Andante
09. III. Presto
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K. 459
10. I. Allegro – Cadenza
11. II. Allegretto
12. III. Allegro assai – Cadenza
The effervescent and communicative energy of Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy is encapsulated again in this second volume of their Mozart series. These exhilarating interpretations of Mozart’s piano concertos of 1784, faultlessly supported by the Manchester Camerata, follow highly praised concerts as well as a first volume which was ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Pianist.
The two concertos presented here are among the six that Mozart composed in Vienna in an extraordinarily productive year. As Bavouzet states in an exclusive personal note, they ‘share their association with operatic and symphonic styles. The contrasts of mood in their first movements and the cantilenas which serve as second movements relate them more closely with music for the operatic stage, while their finales are conceived in purely instrumental terms and make reference to the symphonic domain. On the other hand, these two works are complete opposites as far as their use of wind instruments is concerned. In KV 449 their inclusion is ad libitum, whereas they very often play the principal role in KV 459.’