Angela Hewitt; Orchestra da Camera di Mantova - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 6, 8 & 9

The phenomenal Angela Hewitt embarks upon another Hyperion journey, this time through the piano concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.The twenty-seven concertos for piano and orchestra contain some of the composer�s greatest achievements. Concertos Nos 6 and 8, two of the young Mozart�s earliest attempts at the genre, display a perfection of form and an elegant purity. Concerto No 9, the �Jeunehomme�, remarkably written in 1777 when Mozart was 21, is considered to be the composer�s first great masterpiece. The result of this creative outburst was a monument of musical originality and inventive orchestration. As the American critic Michael Steinberg aptly put it, in this concerto �Mozart, so to speak, became Mozart�.In these interpretations Angela Hewitt displays her characteristic elegance and innate musicality. She is supported by the impeccably refined playing of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova and the disc includes a personal and illuminating note by the pianist.