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Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18

Olga Pashchenko, Il Gardellino

Label
Alpha Classics
Catalogue number
ALPHA 1199
EAN / barcode
3701624511992
Format
Digital
Olga Pashchenko and Il Gardellino present their third recording of Mozart's piano concertos, following the first two installments (ALPHA726 and ALPHA942) which were very well received by press and public: "The most thrillingly 'authentic' Mozart I have ever heard", wrote The Spectator... Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 6 in January 1776, followed by the eighth in April. The then 20-year-old did not want to shock the aristocracy of Salzburg and wrote simple music that nonetheless "transports us to the calm gentleness of a paradisiacal garden, in the style of Gluck and Rameau's 'Champs-Elysées'", as Olivier Messiaen said. Completed on 30 September 1784, the date of the premiere of the Concerto K. 465 is still shrouded in mystery. It is assumed that Mozart performed it in February 1785 in Vienna for his father Leopold, who wrote to his daughter Maria Anna that Wolfgang had triumphed and that the emperor had tilted his hat and cried out "Bravo Mozart!" As with all her recordings, Olga Pashchenko has selected the appropriate instruments for this recording: a copy of the Anton Walter fortepiano (ca. 1792) by Paul McNulty and a copy of the Spath & Schmahl tangent piano (Regensburg, 1794) by Chris Maene.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238: I. Allegro aperto 06:48
  2. 02 Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238: II. Andante un poco adagio 06:01
  3. 03 Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238: III. Rondeau. Allegro 06:51
  4. 04 Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246: I. Allegro aperto 07:42
  5. 05 Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246: II. Andante 07:59
  6. 06 Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246: III. Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto 06:58
  7. 07 Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456: I. Allegro vivace 12:43
  8. 08 Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456: II. Andante un poco sostenuto 10:30
  9. 09 Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456: III. Allegro vivace 07:55

Source: MusicBrainz

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