Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Elizabeth Sombart
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Pierre Vallet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Rubicon
Catalogue: RCD1192
Release: 2025
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271 “Jeunehomme”
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andantino
03. III. Rondeau. Presto
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante
06. III. Allegretto
With his 9th piano concerto, composed in 1777, Mozart entered a new world. The traditional long orchestral introduction is dispensed with, and the soloist enters after the second bar. Nothing as audacious as this would happen in a concerto until Beethoven’s 4th, where the soloist starts the work.
The 9th is a large-scale concerto running to over 30 minutes. By contrast, the group of three concertos composed in 1782 are less demanding, for both soloist and the listener. All three, numbers 11-13, can be performed without the wind instruments, making them ideal for domestic music making with a piano and string quartet. On this album, Elizabeth Sombart performs No.12 which may have had an alternative finale, the Rondo in A K386.
