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These are altogether exceptionally fine accounts, with well-judged tempos… allied with playing that is unfailingly but subtly expressive. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: 2172702
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 61 minutes

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'

Work length27:28

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Jonathan Biss (piano)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Jonathan Biss
Recorded: 2008-03-16
Recording Venue: 14-16 March 2008, Recorded live and in session at Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens College, Flushing, NY

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length14:21

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II. Andante

Track length6:34

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III. Allegro vivace assai

Track length6:33

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482

Work length33:36

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Jonathan Biss (piano)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Jonathan Biss
Recorded: 2008-03-16
Recording Venue: 14-16 March 2008, Recorded live and in session at Lefrak Concert Hall, Queens College, Flushing, NY

I. Allegro

Track length12:53

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II. Andante

Track length8:58

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III. Rondo (Allegro)

Track length11:45

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The young, articulate and passionate American pianist, Jonathan Biss, an exclusive artist for EMI Classics, returns with his much anticipated fourth album for the label featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerti Nos. 21 and 22.

Jonathan is joined by the Grammy®-Award winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, internationally renowned for its fine artistry and distinctive approach to music-making.

It is commonly said that if one wished to learn everything there is to know about Mozart, but could only study a single type of composition, the best choice would be the piano concerto. In this one area, Mozart produced twenty-seven pieces, more piano concerti than any other composer.

His 21st and 22nd appeared in the latter part of his career and were composed in the same year. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21 in C is one of the great and most well-known of his 27 piano concerti. It is also considered among the most technically demanding of all Mozart's concerti. Indeed, Leopold Mozart once described it as "astonishingly difficult".

Mozart was a gifted improviser and it is said that he preferred not to write out the solo cadenzas, deciding instead to improvise them on the spot. Though most of Mozart’s cadenzas have survived, Nos. 20 and No 21, have not. Jonathan has decided to play all his own cadenzas except for the last movement of K467, where he plays Dinu Lipatti's.

Jonathan was introduced on the Debut label at EMI but swiftly moved onto the main label, acknowledging that he is an exceptional and highly accomplished musician. At only 27, he has already established a flourishing international career, both in recital and orchestral performances.

He remains the only American to date to have been chosen to participate in the BBC’s New Generation Artists’ scheme.

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October 2008

These are altogether exceptionally fine accounts, with well-judged tempos… allied with playing that is unfailingly but subtly expressive.

25th September 2008

Jonathan Biss's notes...are deeply pleasurable. [He] certainly knows how to string an enticing sentence together. The good news is that he plays as he writes, with a deep passion that produces rather than forfeits eloquence along the way...His emotive reading of the mournful, unsettled Andante [of K467] leaves one in no doubt as to why the first audience demanded an encore.

November 2008

Biss… plays with much sensibility and has a considerable awareness of Mozartian style…

Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 22

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