Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos

Contents

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Complete Piano Concertos

Disc 1

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major, K40

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F major, K37

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, K39

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, K41

Disc 2

Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K175

Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, K238

Three Concertos after J.C. Bach, K107: Concerto I in D major

Three Concertos after J.C. Bach, K107: Concerto II in G major

Three Concertos after J.C. Bach, K107: Concerto III in E flat major

Disc 3

Concerto in E flat major for two pianos, K365

Concerto in F major for three pianos, K242 ‘Lodron Concerto’

Concerto in E flat major for two pianos, K365 (1782 version)

Disc 4

Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K415

Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K413

Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K246 ‘Lützow-Konzert’

Disc 5

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, K271 ‘Jeunehomme’

Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414

Rondo in A major, K386

Disc 6

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467

Recitative and Rondo: Ch’io mi scordi di te? K505

Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, K 449

Disc 7

Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K451

Piano Concerto No.15 in B flat major, K450

Rondo in D major for piano and orchestra

Disc 8

Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453

Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K537 ‘Coronation Concerto’

Disc 9

Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K456

Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482

Disc 10

Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K459

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

Disc 11

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466

Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595

Disc 12

Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491

Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503

‘An ideal mixture of clarity and stylish effervescence’ (International Record Review) and ‘a completely new, crisp “Mozart-feel” for the 21st century’ (Stereoplay) were just a couple of the reactions from reviewers to the fresh, sometimes bracing readings that Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie offered up during their series of Mozart’s piano concertos. Released between 2010 and 2016, individual instalments also received special recommendations from websites and magazines such as Klassik-Heute, Luister, Scherzo and Gramophone, which listed the team’s performances of concertos Nos 18 and 22 among its ‘50 greatest Mozart recordings’.

The discs have now been collected in a boxed set, with the addition of the double and triple concertos that Brautigam recorded in 2006 with Alexei Lubimov and Manfred Huss as his fellow soloists, accompanied by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. The set spans Mozart’s entire career, from the 11-year old budding composer’s so-called ‘pasticcio concertos’ (Nos 1-4) to Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat major, K595, which he gave the first performance of less than a year before his death in December 1791. The discs are accompanied by the original booklets, with informative liner notes by the musicologist John Irving, author of several books on Mozart.