Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 13 (chamber versions)

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I find Zhang graceful and sensitive in the introspective slow movements, so emotionally affecting, and suitably brisk and vivacious in the Finales. — MusicWeb International, April 2019

Release Date: 29th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: HC18101
Label: Hänssler
Length: 50 minutes

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414

Work length24:35

$6.00

$7.75

$10.50

Haiou Zhang (piano)
NDR Philharmonic String Players
Recorded: 4-5 November 2018
Recording Venue: Kleiner Sendesaal, NDR Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen, Germany

I. Allegro

Track length10:10

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Andante

Track length8:20

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

III. Rondeau. Allegretto

Track length6:05

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K415

Work length25:55

$7.00

$9.05

$12.25

Haiou Zhang (piano)
NDR Philharmonic String Players
Recorded: 4-5 November 2018
Recording Venue: Kleiner Sendesaal, NDR Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen, Germany

I. Allegro

Track length10:47

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

II. Andante

Track length7:33

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

III. Rondeau. Allegro

Track length7:35

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

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Seen from a musical and historical point, Mozart's concertos for piano and orchestra are the veritable beginning of this genre and at the same time climax. With his great concertos, Mozart achieved works which represent to a large extent the quintessence of what possible in this genre. Rightly so, music researcher, Alfred Einstein, ascertains that Mozart's piano concertos are "the culmination and acme of his instrumental creativity, at least in the area of orchestral music." Twenty-three concertos for piano and orchestra have been preserved among which is one for two pianos (no.7 K365/316a respectively) and one for three pianos and orchestra.

The successful performance of his first Viennese concertos nos. 11-13 was, in any case, beyond question. Mozart had had a brilliant start. He described the pieces to his father as "the concertos are a cross between too heavy and too light - they are very brilliant - pleasant to the ear - naturally, without trailing off into a void - here and there - experts alone will reap satisfaction - indeed so much - that even the non connoisseurs will have to be satisfied with them without knowing why."

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April 2019

I find Zhang graceful and sensitive in the introspective slow movements, so emotionally affecting, and suitably brisk and vivacious in the Finales.

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 13 (chamber versions)

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