Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 11 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata & Gábor Takács-Nagy

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Ascanio in Alba, K. 111:
• 1 Mozart: Ascanio in Alba, K. 111: Overture 03:24
• Piano Concerto in D Major, K. 107 / I:
• 2 Mozart: Piano Concerto in D Major, K. 107 / I: I. Allegro 05:14
• 3 Mozart: Piano Concerto in D Major, K. 107 / I: II. Andante 04:18
• 4 Mozart: Piano Concerto in D Major, K. 107 / I: III. Tempo di Menuetto 03:49
• Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87:
• 5 Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87: Ia Overture - Allegro 02:01
• 6 Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87: Ib Overture - Andante grazioso 01:47
• 7 Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87: Ic Overture - Presto 01:28
• Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 107 / II:
• 8 Mozart: Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 107 / II: I. Allegro 04:38
• 9 Mozart: Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 107 / II: II. Allegretto 04:59
• Lo sposo deluso, K. 430:
• 10 Mozart: Lo sposo deluso, K. 430: Overture 05:04
• Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 107 / III:
• 11 Mozart: Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 107 / III: I. Allegro 06:38
• 12 Mozart: Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 107 / III: II. Allegretto 03:03
• Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345:
• 13 Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345: Entr'acte No. 2, Allegro 04:52
• 14 Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345: Entr'acte No. 3, Andante 05:07
• 15 Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345: Entr'acte No. 4, Allegro 03:31
• 16 Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345: Entr'acte No. 5, Allegro vivace assai 03:25
• 17 Mozart: Thamos, König in Ägypten, K. 345: Entr'acte No. 7a 01:08
• Total Runtime 01:04:26

Info for Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 11

This eleventh volume adds the three juvenile concertos which Mozart composed in 1771 - 72, all re-writes of keyboard sonatas by J.C. Bach. Bach had been something of a mentor to Mozart whilst he was living in London (1764 – 65) and these concertos not only draw on Bach’s thematic material, but are very much in the gallant style of which Bach was a leading proponent. Converting the sonatas into concertos presented Mozart with numerous challenges, as both forms were subject to relatively strict conventions that were markedly different. Mozart overcame these challenges with great imagination and lightness of touch.

The Overture to Mitridate, re di Ponto was composed for the Duke of Lombardy in 1770 when Mozart was fourteen, a year before the concertos. The opera was a great hit, and consequently Mozart was commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa to write a serenata for the wedding of her son Archduke Ferdinand. Ascanio in Alba was the result. Mozart started the comedy Lo sposo deluso in 1785, but only composed five numbers, including the Overture heard here. The five pieces written for Thamos, König in Ägypten represent the only set of incidental music that Mozart composed for the theatre.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Manchester Camerata
Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
He makes you listen to music as if you are discovering it Eureka!-style: yes, that’s what the composer must have meant.” (Financial Times).

Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He regularly works with orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and NHK Symphony orchestras, and collaborates with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, François- Xavier Roth, Nicholas Collon, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Sir Andrew Davis amongst others.

Highlights during the 2018/19 season include the Lincoln Center in New York with the London Philharmonic under Edward Gardner, Orchestre national de Lyon, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, a Debussy focus with the Antwerp Symphony, his continuing collaboration with Manchester Camerata including an extensive tour of China as well as performances with Sapporo Symphony, Seoul and Taiwan philharmonic orchestras. Following his highly successful extended Debussy recital at the Barbican’s Milton Court and the 2018 Perth International Arts Festival, Jean-Efflam will present this programme at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. Other recitals include a return to the Louvre, Wigmore Hall – both in solo recital and in collaboration with Kristóf Baráti and István Várdai, as well as a number of recitals in the U.K., Germany and Belgium. He will also return to the Verbier Festival in 2019.

Recent performances include the San Francisco Symphony, Aspen Festival, and Seattle, NHK and BBC symphony orchestras. He also appeared at the Philharmonie de Paris with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Kazuki Yamada, BBC Proms performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, Carnegie Hall, as part of a major North American tour together with the London Philharmonic under Vladimir Jurowski, as well as hr-Sinfonieorchester under Juraj Valčuha, Les Siécles and François-Xavier Roth which included concerts at London’s Royal Festival Hall and the Granada Festival.

Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos and his recording of Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Bergen Philharmonic under Edward Gardner has been nominated for the Concerto category of the 2018 Gramophone Awards. Together with Manchester Camerata and Gábor Takács-Nagy, Bavouzet has recorded several of Haydn’s Piano Concertos and embarked on a series of Mozart concertos, which have been critically acclaimed. His complete Prokofiev Piano Concertos with BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda won the Concerto category of the 2014 Gramophone Awards. Other recordings include the complete Beethoven Sonatas, Bartók’s Piano Concerto’s with the BBC Philharmonic and Noseda, and Stravinsky’s Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo under Yan-Pascal Tortelier. Also with Tortelier, Bavouzet’s recording of the Ravel Piano concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra won both a Gramophone and BBC magazine award. Bavouzet’s recordings have garnered other Gramophone Awards and BBC Music Magazine Awards, a Diapason d’Or and Choc de l’année. Ongoing recording projects include the Haydn Piano Sonata cycles.

Bavouzet has worked closely with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Kurtág, Maurice Ohana and Bruno Mantovani and is also a champion of lesser-known French music, notably that of Gabriel Pierné and Albéric Magnard. He is the International Chair in Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music.

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