Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8, 11 & 13

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Ronald Brautigam and the Cologne Academy under Michael Alexander Willens offer stylish and enjoyable performances — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2074
Label: BIS
Series: Brautigam Mozart Concertos
Length: 68 minutes

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

Work length25:32

$4.00

$6.10

Ronald Brautigam
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Allegro

Track length10:19

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$2.30

II. Andante

Track length6:45

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length8:28

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$2.30

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K413

Work length21:21

$3.50

$5.30

Ronald Brautigam
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Allegro

Track length9:02

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$2.30

II. Larghetto

Track length6:49

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$1.50

III. Tempo di menuetto

Track length5:30

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K246 "Lützow"

Work length21:30

$4.00

$6.10

Ronald Brautigam
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens

I. Allegro aperto

Track length7:26

$1.50

$2.30

II. Andante

Track length7:10

$1.50

$2.30

III. Rondo. Tempo di menuetto

Track length6:54

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$1.50

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This is the ninth instalment in Ronald Brautigam’s series of the complete piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As on previous discs, Brautigam – whose ‘muscular yet sensitively nuanced command of Mozartian discourse’ (BBC Music Magazine) – is supported by Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens. The opening work on this instalment is the C major concerto, K 415, which was first performed on 23rd March 1783 in the presence of Emperor Joseph II. K 415 was composed in conjunction with the Concerto No. 11 in F major, K 413, which in contrast is a more intimate creation, especially in its Larghetto middle movement, in which Mozart achieves some of his most memorable writing, with the various textures of the orchestra providing a cushion of sound for a delicious cantabile aria for the piano – a model that was to become almost a trademark of his later concerto slow movements. The disc closes with Concerto No. 8 in C major, K 246, composed some six years earlier. Mozart wrote it for Countess Antonia Lützow, one of his father’s pupils, and in terms of technical difficulty, it is among the least demanding of his piano concertos – which nevertheless didn’t stop Mozart from performing it himself on several occasions.

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February 2016

Ronald Brautigam and the Cologne Academy under Michael Alexander Willens offer stylish and enjoyable performances

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8, 11 & 13

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