Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 3

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The Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy deliver blisteringly energetic articulation…Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy relish Mozart’s wicked touches of humour…[in the Quintet] once again, Bavouzet,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN20035
Label: Chandos
Series: Bavouzet Mozart Piano Concertos
Length: 71 minutes

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K451

Work length22:31

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Manchester Camerata
Gábor Takács-Nagy
Recorded: 9-11 April 2018
Recording Venue: The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester, United Kingdom

I. Allegro assai

Track length10:12

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II. Andante

Track length5:51

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III. Allegro di molto

Track length6:28

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K450

Work length24:50

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Manchester Camerata
Gábor Takács-Nagy
Recorded: 9-11 April 2018
Recording Venue: The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester, United Kingdom

I. Allegro

Track length10:58

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II. Andante

Track length5:56

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III. Allegro

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Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K452

Work length23:39

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Rachael Clegg (oboe), Fiona Cross (clarinet), Ben Hudson (bassoon), Naomi Atherton (horn), Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Recorded: 9-11 April 2018
Recording Venue: The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester, United Kingdom

I. Largo - Allegro moderato

Track length9:53

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II. Larghetto

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

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This third volume in the series from the electrifying combination of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács- Nagy explores the final two of the six piano concertos of the year 1784, on which Mozart staked his reputation as both a performer and composer. Alongside these works features the pioneering Quintet for Piano and Winds, also from 1784, the first written for this combination of instruments and a work which Mozart regarded as his finest to date. The consecutive Köchel numbers of the three piano works hint at a remarkable story: not only were they all written in the same extraordinarily productive year, but all were completed in the same month, March, when Mozart was just twenty-eight years old. The two concertos form a pair, and in letters to his father Mozart makes it clear that he wrote them for his own performance: ‘nobody but I owns these new concertos in B flatand D’, adding in another letter, two weeks later, ‘I consider them both to be concertos which make one sweat’. Heard in this context, Bavouzet’s playing is all the more astonishing.

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January 2019

The Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy deliver blisteringly energetic articulation…Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy relish Mozart’s wicked touches of humour…[in the Quintet] once again, Bavouzet, working in a stimulating partnership with the orchestral principals, produces an elegant account that more than holds its own with many of the formidable recordings in the current catalogue.

December 2018

Bavouzet and the Mancunians under Takács-Nagy find an ideal balance between the light-hearted and the serious in these wide-ranging pieces…The conjunction of soloist, band and Chandos’s characteristically fine engineering continue as they set out two years ago and conspires in a fascinating portent of what these players might do in due course with the later, larger, deeper concertos.

January 2019

...his scintillating performance masks any discomfiture. The star of the show, however, is the Quintet in E-flat, the orchestral accompaniment stripped away to oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, a masterpiece of Classical poise and balance. If the pianist is primus inter pares, each of the wind players has their share of the sunlight and the soloists from the Manchester Camerata… relish every note. The full band is on fine form in the concertos, well marshalled by Gábor Takács-Nagy. Excellent sound.

11th November 2018

Two of the six concertos from the miraculous year 1784 have been reduced to obscurity by the familiar enchantments of the other four, so it’s good to relish them here, performed splendidly by Bavouzet and Takacs-Nagy’s lively Manchester players.

classicalsource.com November 2018

As for the Piano and Wind Quintet, once again the recording preserves every note and nuance, friends making civilised conversation, mostly intimate, always intelligent, a lively and considered discourse, give and take, changes of colour and character.

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