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Mozart – Piano Concertos No 18 & 22 / Brautigam, Willens, Cologne Academy

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Details

Composer
MOZART, W.A.
Artist
Brautigam, Die Kolner Akademie, Willens
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Apr 29, 2014
Catalog #
BIS-SACD-2044
UPC
7318599920443

About



This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

The sixth disc in this highly acclaimed series combine two works in which Mozart's powers as an orchestrator come to the fore. Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K 456, is sometimes referred to as one of the composer’s ‘military concertos’ on the basis of the march-like main theme of the first movement. But more striking is the variety of ways that Mozart employs the various groups of instruments: strings, wind instruments and, of course, the piano. This aspect certainly didn’t pass unnoticed by a listener as initiated as Mozart’s father Leopold: in a letter to his daughter Nannerl he described how his enjoyment of the orchestral interplay had brought tears to his eyes. The performance that Leopold was referring to was by Mozart himself at a concert in Vienna in 1785, but the work is believed to have been written for the blind virtuoso Maria Theresia von Paradis to play on a concert trip to Paris, and the demanding piano part leaves us in no doubt about her abilities as a pianist. Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, on the other hand, is one that Mozart wrote primarily for his own use, completing it on 16th December 1785, and performing it later the same month. It is the first of only three piano concertos in which he uses clarinets, to particular effect in the expressive Andantino cantabile episode of the otherwise ebullient Finale. The orchestra is on the whole unusually large, with trumpets and timpani, and horn parts which are uncommonly independent and important to the musical argument.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro vivace 11:55
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    11:55
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ensemble
    Orchester der Kölner Akademie
    Conductor
    Michael Alexander Willens
  2. 2 II. Andante un poco sostenuto 09:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante un poco sostenuto
    Duration
    09:21
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ensemble
    Orchester der Kölner Akademie
    Conductor
    Michael Alexander Willens
  3. 3 III. Allegro vivace 07:20
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ensemble
    Orchester der Kölner Akademie
    Conductor
    Michael Alexander Willens
  4. 4 I. Allegro 12:19
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    12:19
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ensemble
    Orchester der Kölner Akademie
    Conductor
    Michael Alexander Willens
  5. 5 II. Andante 07:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    07:37
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ensemble
    Orchester der Kölner Akademie
    Conductor
    Michael Alexander Willens
  6. 6 III. Allegro 10:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    10:29
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Ronald Brautigam
    Ensemble
    Orchester der Kölner Akademie
    Conductor
    Michael Alexander Willens