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Mozart: Piano Concertos, K. 242, 365, 466 & 467

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Composer
MOZART, W.A.
Artist
Tryon, Donohoe, Momen, Van Steen, Brott
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Apr 06, 2018
Catalog #
SOMMCD 268-2
UPC
748871326828

About

Mozart's progress from child prodigy to mature brilliance, from innocent insight to inspired innovation, is measured out in his piano music. Somm's survey of six works for one, two and three pianos brilliantly charts both his phenomenal development and his far-reaching transformation of the concerto form. Two of today's finest, most accomplished and admired pianists - Valerie Tryon and Peter Donohoe - bring unrivalled experience to bear in impeccable, incisive and illuminating accounts of the solo and duo works. The young, fast-rising Mishka Rushdie Momen joins them for the discretely dazzling Piano Concerto No.7 for three pianos. Three other concertos are featured. Composed for Mozart's sister, Nannerl, the two-piano No.10 is a playful but challenging exercise in sibling rivalry. A favorite of Beethoven's, No.20 is marked by a dark-hued drama and broiling emotional turbulence banished by it's surprise sunny ending. Famously, it prompted Haydn to tell Mozart's father, "Your son is the greatest composer whom I know in person or by reputation". The Piano Concerto No.21 is distinguished by it's melodic directness, guileless wit and the balletic interaction between piano and orchestra, it's meltingly lyrical Andante popularised by it's use in the 1967 film Elvira Madigan and American pop star Neil Diamond's 1972 chart hit, Song Sung Blue. Echoing the galant style of the Seventh Piano Concerto, the ebullient, lyrical and bright Sonata for Two Pianos in D pulls and pushes the focus between the two instruments in music of delightfully genial resourcefulness. Composed a year later, the Fantasia in C minor for solo piano boasts a cornucopia of mesmerising effects as it spins the piano line into altogether idiomatic flights of dark-toned fantasy richly realised by Valerie Tryon.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Allegro 15:32
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    15:32
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jac van Steen
  3. 2 II. Romance 09:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Romance
    Duration
    09:40
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jac van Steen
  4. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro assai 09:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro assai
    Duration
    09:07
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jac van Steen
  5. 4 I. Allegro maestoso 16:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro maestoso
    Duration
    16:55
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jac van Steen
  6. 5 II. Andante 06:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    06:43
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jac van Steen
  7. 6 III. Allegro vivace assai 07:51
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro vivace assai
    Duration
    07:51
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Jac van Steen
  8. 7 Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396 (fragment) (arr. and completed by M. Stadler for piano) 11:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396 (fragment) (arr. and completed by M. Stadler for piano)
    Duration
    11:15
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon
  9. Disc 2
  10. 1 I. Allegro 10:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    10:26
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon, Peter Donohoe
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Boris Brott
  11. 2 II. Andante 06:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    06:56
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon, Peter Donohoe
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Boris Brott
  12. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro 07:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon, Peter Donohoe
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Boris Brott
  13. 4 I. Allegro con spirito 08:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    08:09
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon, Peter Donohoe
  14. 5 II. Andante 09:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    09:13
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon, Peter Donohoe
  15. 6 III. Allegro molto 06:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro molto
    Duration
    06:35
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Valerie Tryon, Peter Donohoe
  16. 7 I. Allegro 09:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    09:08
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe, Valerie Tryon, Mishka Rushdie Momen
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Boris Brott
  17. 8 II. Adagio 08:07
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    08:07
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe, Valerie Tryon, Mishka Rushdie Momen
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Boris Brott
  18. 9 III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto 06:18
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Rondo: Tempo di menuetto
    Duration
    06:18
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe, Valerie Tryon, Mishka Rushdie Momen
    Ensemble
    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Boris Brott