Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 27 & 20

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it is the autumnal Concerto No. 27...that is perhaps better suited to the understated poetic eloquence of Maria Joao Pires's playing than the more overtly dramatic Concerto No. 20...Abbado and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: 4790075
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 60 minutes

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595

Work length28:47

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Maria João Pires (piano), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2011-09
Recording Venue: Italy

I. Allegro

Track length13:39

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II. Larghetto

Track length6:23

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III. Allegro

Track length8:45

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466

Work length31:19

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Maria João Pires (piano), Ludwig van Beethoven (cadenzor)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 2011-09
Recording Venue: Italy

I. Allegro

Track length14:48

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II. Romance

Track length8:24

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III. Rondo. Allegro assai

Track length8:07

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The sublime results were worth the wait: after forty years of collaboration, Maria João Pires and Maestro Claudio Abbado record two of Mozart’s most beloved piano concertos for the very first time.

Maria João Pires weaves dark, dramatic strains into the miraculous luminosity of the D minor Concerto No.20, K.466 with a simplicity that makes her Mozart supreme. She then bestows a glowing majesty upon Mozart’s last piano concerto, the serene Concerto No.27 K. 595 in B flat major, as only an artist of her gifts and profound experience can.

Orchestra Mozart and Maestro Abbado support Pires with translucent sound and immaculate style: an exceptional encounter between two musical giants of our time.

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January 2013

it is the autumnal Concerto No. 27...that is perhaps better suited to the understated poetic eloquence of Maria Joao Pires's playing than the more overtly dramatic Concerto No. 20...Abbado and his Orchestra Mozart offer fine support in both Concertos, and the performances as a whole have an elegance that cannot fail to give pleasure.

January 2013

The conducting is intelligently alive, in quality reminiscent of Benjamin Britten...Pires enters into the prevailing mood, her artistry as thougthful as yore...Pires shows that expressive sensitivity isn't confined to a slow tempo...Reduced forces might have enhanced the concerto's intimate character. It's a small point. These absorbing, penetrating performances deserve the widest currency.

December 2012

From the first moment, the performance has a quality that characterizes the entire recording: a perfect balance between musical, textural and rhythmic precision and all of the mood and atmosphere that the music requires

16th December 2012

[K595] has a strange, veiled, ethereal quality, an air of difference from the others, well brought out by Pires, with Abbado and his fine players. By contrast, the opening of the D minor sounds rather tame...The other two movements are much more convincing.

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 27 & 20

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