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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14
Dejan Lazic (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
A stylish opening tutti grabs the attention immediately in the A major Concerto: de Vriend’s background in historically informed performance produces minimal vibrato, tight phrasing and a transparent...
Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14
Dejan Lazic (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
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A stylish opening tutti grabs the attention immediately in the A major Concerto: de Vriend’s background in historically informed performance produces minimal vibrato, tight phrasing and a transparent...
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This disc from the new and inspiring collaboration with first-rate pianist, Dejan Lazic, and one of Europe's best orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic, is the first of three CDs devoted to Mozart's Piano Concertos.
Dejan Lazic: The concept behind our present undertaking, the Mozart Piano Concertos CD-trilogy, is to bring together concertos of Mozart's miscellaneous composing and performing periods, styles, techniques, and instrumentations side by side, thus to deeply examine and throughout his travels more closely explore his many creative phases within this genre. That is linked further with an encore-like single work on each CD, yet the additional connecting link between these initially planned six piano concertos is the Cadenzas & Lead-ins which I have composed myself.
Me and conductor de Vriend, partnering here together with the wonderful Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, we took a great care of the needs of Mozart's music that was of course written for an instrument with a different timbre and dynamic range than the modern concert grand, thus carefully balancing the methods of playing: voicing, phrasing, articulation, rhetoric, and dynamics during solo, accompanied solo and tutti.
Contents and tracklist
- adapted from 3rd movement of Sonata K333 by Dejan Lazić
- Dejan Lazic (piano)
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Jan Willem de Vriend
Awards and reviews
December 2023
A stylish opening tutti grabs the attention immediately in the A major Concerto: de Vriend’s background in historically informed performance produces minimal vibrato, tight phrasing and a transparent texture, despite the modern instruments in the orchestra.