On this disc one of the world's finest pianists encounters one of the world's greatest wind quintets, performing two very special works: Mozart's and Beethoven's...

On this disc one of the world's finest pianists encounters one of the world's greatest wind quintets, performing two very special works: Mozart's and Beethoven's quintets for piano and winds. While the Beethoven Quintet is a new recording, the Mozart works on this disc have been previously released, on BIS-CD-1332. On its release in 2000 that disc was highly praised, for instance in Gramophone, which called it 'a real Mozartian experience' and in American Record Guide: 'The best recording of Mozart's Quintet I have ever heard.' According to Le Monde de la Musique, 'by the clarity, the subtly applied abundance of inflexions and a very real inner power' the musicians proved themselves 'true Mozartians'. As this disc will show, they are no less true Beethovenians!