Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453) Classical Alpha

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453)

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AJ 0928

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453)

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA928

Release Date: May 2023
Originally recorded in 2022

Genre:
Classical

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The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart conductor, who considers that playing his music is like ‘looking in a mirror: you can hear if everything is in place, musicality, intonation, rhythm, phrasing’. For this fifth volume, the American pianist Claire Huangci joins the Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg and Howard Griffiths, her mentor for the past ten years. For her, she says, these concertos are ‘true musical revelations, works full of virtuosity and imagination’.

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Reviews

**** Excellent Album

Gérard Belvire – Classica magazine (France) – February 2024

“… Gorgeous sound, perfect balance and joyful playing make this a winning recording of these three spectacular concertos.”

Rob Challinor – Musicwebinternational.com – 27 September 2023

“… this is an excellent album, musically sound and technically beyond criticism.”

Rob Cowan – Gramophone magazine – August 2023

“… The D major Concerto, No 16 (K451) opens the proceedings … She (Huangci] revels in the fingery brilliance of the faster music, investing this opening movement with a nervous energy, but also deploying a range of touches and articulations that respond acutely to Mozart’s quicksilver changes of mood. That combination of perceptiveness and technical command easily places this among the most enjoyable recent recordings of this repertoire. The opening movement of the B flat Concerto, No 15 (K450), bubbles infectiously, and finales are gleefully buoyant and spirited…”

David Threasher – International Piano – July/August 2023

*****

Attila Csampai – Rondo magazine (Germany) – March 2023

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