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莫札特:第15.16號鋼琴協奏曲/鋼琴及木管五重奏
尚-艾弗藍．巴佛傑 鋼琴/曼徹斯特室內管弦樂團

This third volume in the series from the electrifying combination of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy explores the final two of the six piano concertos of the year 1784, on which Mozart staked his reputation as both a performer and composer. Alongside these works features the pioneering Quintet for Piano and Winds, also from 1784, the first written for this combination of instruments and a work which Mozart regarded as his finest to date.

The consecutive Köchel numbers of the three piano works hint at a remarkable story: not only were they all written in the same extraordinarily productive year, but all were completed in the same month, March, when Mozart was just twenty-eight years old. The two concertos form a pair, and in letters to his father Mozart makes it clear that he wrote them for his own performance: 'nobody but I owns these new concertos in B flat and D', adding in another letter, two weeks later, 'I consider them both to be concertos which make one sweat'. Heard in this context, Bavouzet's playing is all the more astonishing.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Concerto, KV 451 (1784)
22:24
in D major for Piano and Orchestra
1.Allegro assai - Cadenza - [Tempo I]10:09
2.Andante5:51
3.Rondeau. Allegro di molto - Cadenza - [Tempo I]6:21

Concerto, KV 450 (1784)
24:39
in B flat major for Piano and Orchestra
4.Allegro - Cadenza - Adagio - Tempo I10:55
5.Andante5:53
6.Allegro - [Cadenza] - [Tempo I] - Cadenza - [Tempo I]7:45

Quintet, KV 452 (1784) *
in E flat major  for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon
7.Largo - Allegro moderato9:48
8.Larghetto8:18
9.Allegretto - Cadenza in tempo - [Tempo I]5:27

Total time: 71:03

Solo: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
Orchestra: Manchester Camerata
Rachel Clegg oboe
Fiona Cross clarinet
Naomi Atherton horn
Ben Hudson bassoon
Adi Brett leader
Conductor: Gabor Takacs-Nagy