Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ferruccio Busoni
Performer: Hélène Grimaud, Mojca Erdmann
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio
Conductor: Radoslaw Szulc
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4779455
Release: 2011
Size: 257 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K459
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Allegro assai
Ch’io mi scordi di te?… Non temer, amato bene, K505
04. Ch’io mi scordi di te?
05. Non temer, amato bene
06. Alme belle, che vedete
Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Allegro assai
This album marks two ‘firsts’ for Hélène Grimaud – her first live DG recording and her first ever Mozart concerto recording – the Piano Concertos Nos. 19 in F, and 23 in A. Hélène Grimaud considers the concerto in A major “probably the most sublime concerto Mozart ever wrote”, with a slow movement that is “an extremely deep and painful expression of longing, where you find the real Mozart.” The concerto in F major K459 is less well-known, but with a very special vitality and a virtuosic finale that is for Grimaud, “pure pianistic pleasure”. As well as the two concertos, the album includes the beautiful concert aria for orchestra, soprano and piano ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’, sung by Mojca Erdmann. The aria was Mozart’s declaration of love to the soprano Nancy Storace, his Susanna in the world premiere of “Le nozze di Figaro”.
Digital version contains bonus track: Chopin: Etude In F Minor, Op.posth. “Méthode des méthodes”