Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Eric Le Sage
Orchestra: Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: François Leleux
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA866
Release: 2022
Size: 998 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491
01. I. Allegro (Cadenza by Gabriel Fauré)
02. II. Larghetto
03. III. Allegretto
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante
06. III. Allegretto
Mozart’s piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H. C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer’s life and work, “it is above all their immense stylistic diversity that places Mozart’s piano concertos above and beyond those of his contemporaries”. What these scores also share is their position at a crossroads for strongly impacting influences: that of the symphony, encouraging Mozart to make lavish use of the orchestra; the wind bands of the Imperial court, shaping his enhanced role for the woodwinds; and the influence of the opera, whose styles he worked into these concertos, often treating the dialogue between piano and orchestra as if they were stage characters. In this new recording, Eric Le Sage is joined by the Gävle Symfoniorkester to perform the Concertos for Piano and Orchestra No. 17 and No. 24 by the Salzburg composer.