Composer: Giovanni Battista Martini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
Performer: Yorck Kronenburg
Orchestra: Capriccio Barock Orchester
Conductor: Dominik Kiefer
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Tudor
Catalogue: TUD7211
Release: 2022
Size: 267 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Romance
03. III. Allegro assai
Martini: Piano Concerto in G major
04. I. Spiritoso
05. II. Andante
06. III. Allegro
07. IV. Vivace
Sterkel: Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Op. 26 No. 2
08. I. Allegro
09. II. Adagio
10. III. Rondo. Presto
These three piano concertos provide new insights: two discoveries from the classical era that alter our perspective on the seemingly familiar. Giovanni Battista Martini was a leading music theoretician of his time. His compositions caused a sensation. His many pupils included Johann Christian Bach. Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel sought musical instruction from him.
His Piano Concerto is particularly remarkable for its song ful lyricism, whose expressiveness is far ahead of what was customary at the time. Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel worked as a court musician, and from 1802 directed the court music in Aschaffenburg. We know of contacts with Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber. The Piano Concerto in D major is characterized by clear structure and instrumental virtuosity. The Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466 is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s greatest works. Comparing it to the now almost forgotten Concertos by Sterkel and Martini yields an added prespective: it is a psychological drama, in which we encounter Mozart’s matchless genius.