Mozart Piano Concertos Vol. 12 - Jean-efflam ... Bavouzet - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

Jean-Efflam Bovouzet’s acclaimed cycle of Mozart’s piano
concertos reaches its conclusion with this twelfth volume. The
programme offers a suitably celebratory mood: the Overtures
to Idomeneo and La finta semplice frame the A major and D
major Rondos for piano and orchestra and the Concerto for
three pianos, and ends with the double piano concerto.
Bavouzet comments: ‘As one reaches the conclusion of a series
of recordings that has stretched over a long period of time, the
feeling of fulness at having arrived at one’s goal always blends
with an immediate sense of nostalgia for the recording
sessions, marvellous moments engaged in the search for
a truth that always remains beyond reach. After a span of
nine years, we arrive at the end of this complete recording
project with the devoted members of Manchester Camerata
and my friend Gábor Takács-Nagy. Gábor’s plan to combine
them with operatic overtures was certainly most appealing, but
the task of playing the entirety of this enormous corpus of
concertos seemed to me gigantic! And then a few
considerations very quickly made me conscious that a rare
opportunity now presented itself to me, which it would have
been illadvised to pass up: this intense musical fellowship with
Gábor and the joy of making music with him, the excellence of
the members of Manchester Camerata and their untiring
energy and suppleness in accepting our continual musical
‘experimentations’, and, finally, the wonderful chance for once
in my life to have at my side a born, inspiring Mozartian, my
wife, Andrea Nemecz.’

Label: Chandos | Origin: Holland