Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 / Sinfonia Concertante

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 / Sinfonia Concertante

On this CD:

1. Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K. 482
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Norbert Brainin, Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, Peter Schidlof

2. Adagio and Fugue for string quartet (or string orchestra) in C minor, K. 546
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Norbert Brainin, Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, Peter Schidlof

3. Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra in E flat major, K. 364
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Norbert Brainin, Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, Peter Schidlof

Editorial Reviews
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This live recording has all the immediacy of a performance. Under Britten, a committed Mozartian, the orchestra is wonderful, the winds unusually prominent; Richter plays the piano concerto beautifully, with pristine purity, great vitality, lyricism, elegant phrasing, poised rhythmic flexibility, and expressiveness. Britten's cadenzas exploit his virtuosity, but seem to reflect Mozart in a distorting mirror. Brainin and Schidlof's playing of the Concertante, 15 years after their lovely youthful first recording, sounds even better, as does the orchestra, and is just as brilliant and expressive. Britten undoubtedly influenced the interpretive differences between the two performances but, though some of the changes create more depth and contrast, he is not in complete agreement with his soloists. The first movement, which is unusually slow, seems to proceed at two different tempos; they keep urging forward, finally cutting loose in the cadenza. However, the second movement is more flowing, intense, mournful and anguished, the finale brisker, less free, but with bigger ritards. Both versions are well worth hearing. --Edith Eisler

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 / Sinfonia Concertante

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