Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27

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Lyrical, lively, texturally translucent and rhythmically buoyant, Kissin here [in k595] conveys that elusive universality that makes Mozart unique in history. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, 3 out of 5 stars/1 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: 6266452
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 63 minutes

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466

Work length33:39

Album only

Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Kremerata Baltica
Evgeny Kissin
Recorded: 2008-06-17
Recording Venue: 17-19 June 2008. Herkulessaal, Munich

I. Allegro

Track length15:15

Album only

II. Romanze

Track length10:11

Album only

III. Rondo (Allegro Assai)

Track length8:13

$1.30

$1.70

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595

Work length29:34

Album only

Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Kremerata Baltica
Evgeny Kissin
Recorded: 2008-06-17
Recording Venue: 17-19 June 2008. Herkulessaal, Munich

I. Allegro

Track length13:16

Album only

II. Larghetto

Track length7:43

$1.30

$1.70

III. Allegro

Track length8:35

$1.30

$1.70

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Since his international debut as an astonishing child prodigy in the early 1980s, Evgeny Kissin has matured into one of the finest piano virtuosos of the age. His phenomenal keyboard technique and impeccable artistry continue to astound and amaze audiences and critics alike, leading The Washington Post to call Kissin “one of the world’s greatest artists”.

Kissin continues his fruitful relationship with EMI Classics with this new recording of two of Mozart’s most famous piano concerti: Nos. 20 in D minor and 27 in B-flat Major. This electrifying recording, with Kissin conducting the orchestra Kremerata Baltica from the keyboard, is one that his legion of admirers is certain to embrace.

Concerto no.20 is the first (and one of only two) piano concerti that Mozart wrote in the minor key. It was a work greatly admired by Beethoven who kept it in his own concert repertoire for performance.

Reviews

October 2010

Lyrical, lively, texturally translucent and rhythmically buoyant, Kissin here [in k595] conveys that elusive universality that makes Mozart unique in history.

September 2010

[Kissin] keeps the ensemble tight and tidy...there are some wonderful moments like the magically handled return to the main subject after the stormy central section of the D minor's Andante, and the finale of K595 takes flight with Kissin producing his most sparkling playing

October 2010

This performance of [K595] is hard to fault: there is a fabulous purity of tone, most especially in the slow movement, while the first movement is beautifully pointed from the very start...Kissin continues in a similarly effortless relaxed vein, colouring the sudden modulations in the development without mannerism or affectation.

22nd August 2010

Evgeny Kissin, in his first recording as both pianist and conductor, gives stylish performances of these two highly contrasting concertos, and has also, seemingly, mastered the far from easy art of directing from the keyboard.The interplay between the soloist and the Kremerata Baltica...is finely managed

1st August 2010

[Kissin] reminds us that Mozart can withstand bold, meaty playing, with tempi slower, textures heavier and climaxes more expansive than most pianists now dare...these accounts, with passionate support from the Kremerata Baltica, remind you of a performance tradition that has all but disappeared.

30th July 2010

...the more muscular and stormy Mozart’s music, the more Kissin’s engagement rises. Tension crackles. Phrasing becomes taut...Yet his restraint in itself is no drawback. Both concertos are notably pensive, at times agitated: Kissin simply makes the shadows linger longer.

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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27

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