Mozart: Piano Concertos, Volume 7

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Bavouzet uses a modern concert grand, with the orchestra avoiding excessive vibrato but otherwise playing in today’s mellow-toned instrumental style. The superlative collective result shows that... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 17th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: CHAN20192
Label: Chandos
Series: Bavouzet Mozart Piano Concertos
Length: 67 minutes

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture

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Manchester Camerata
Gábor Takács-Nagy

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491

Work length31:00

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Manchester Camerata
Gábor Takács-Nagy

I. Allegro

Track length14:24

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II. Larghetto

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III. Allegretto

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503

Work length32:03

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Manchester Camerata
Gábor Takács-Nagy

I. Allegro maestoso

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II. Andante

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III. Allegretto

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Volume 7 of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Mozart piano concertos survey with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata features two of the late concertos – Nos 24 and 25 – along with a spirited reading of the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). Concerto No. 24 was written whilst Mozart was busily composing Le nozze di Figaro, between October 1785 and the première, in Vienna, in May 1786. One of only two piano concertos in a minor key, this extraordinary work possesses many unusual features, including the deliberately ambivalent tonality of the opening melody, which uses all twelve tones of the scale (a pre-echo of serialism??!). Concerto No. 25 was probably first performed, in Vienna, in December 1786, and was certainly a success as there were many repeat performances in the following years (probably including one by Beethoven, in 1795). The disc was recorded in Manchester’s Stoller Hall, Bavouzet playing a Yamaha CFX nine-foot Concert Grand Piano.

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April 2023

Bavouzet uses a modern concert grand, with the orchestra avoiding excessive vibrato but otherwise playing in today’s mellow-toned instrumental style. The superlative collective result shows that period performance issues need not be an overriding concern, if the feeling for the idiom itself is so engagingly right.

March 2023

Certainly these are performances of warmth and beauty that continue to deliver fresh insights even after repeated hearings.

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