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Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 27

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Catalogue numberBIS-2014 SACD
Release date2013-09-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time53:34

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”This is lovely stuff, and I will be on the lookout for further releases in this series. …this new disc will soften the blow after even the most manic Monday.” Fanfare

Among the most widely performed of Mozart’s piano concertos for a good half century after its composition in 1785, the Concerto No.20 in D minor still assumes a commanding place in the concert hall.

Among its early devotees was Beethoven, who performed the work at a benefit concert for Mozart’s widow in March 1795 and who may well have found much to admire in the work’s brooding opening, characterized by syncopations and later punctuated by more aggressive outbursts; in his informative liner notes, the Mozart scholar John Irving goes so far as to call it ‘Mozart’s grittiest concerto’.

Six years after the D minor concerto, in January 1791, the composer completed the Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat major, K595, giving the first performance of it two months later. This was to be his last public appearance as a soloist, and the concerto has sometimes been considered as a work in which the typical sparkle of Mozart’s virtuosity is tempered by resignation, as if the composer were already aware of his imminent demise. Such an interpretation is contradicted by a close study of the autograph manuscript, however: the concerto appears to have been begun two full years before it was completed.

Its language is nevertheless more introverted than most of Mozart’s works in the genre: he seems to be aiming for a sublime delicacy of expression rarely attempted elsewhere in his concerto output.

These two exceptional works are here performed by Ronald Brautigam and Die Kölner Akademie, on their fifth disc of Mozart’s concertos – an ongoing series which has been described as ‘a lucky break and a true delight’ in the German magazine Piano News.
 
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  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K 466 26:06
01 I. Allegro 12:00 $ 2.88 USD
02 II. Romanze 07:17 $ 1.75 USD
03 III. Allegro assai 06:49 $ 1.64 USD
 
  Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat major, K 595 26:32
04 I. Allegro 12:57 $ 3.11 USD
05 II. Larghetto 05:20 $ 1.28 USD
06 III. Rondo. Allegro 08:15 $ 1.98 USD
 
  Album total 53:34
ComposerMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
ConductorWillens, Michael Alexander
EnsembleKölner Akademie, Die
FortepianoBrautigam, Ronald

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