W. A. Mozart - Piano Concertos No.22 & 2

Hyperion is delighted to present Angela Hewitt�s third volume of Mozart piano concertos. Writing in The Observer, Stephen Pritchard wrote of the first volume that �Judging from this first example, it�s going to be a journey as revelatory as her exploration of all the major keyboard works of Bach�.Here Angela Hewitt is joined by her compatriot National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada and frequent collaborator Hannu Lintu for sparklingly stylish renditions of Mozart�s Piano Concertos Nos 22 and 24.Both of these works were written between December 1785 and March 1786. For the first time in a piano concerto orchestration, in No 22 he uses clarinets�an instrument that became a regular member of orchestras only in the 1780s. No 24 is a dark and passionate work, made more striking by its classical restraint, and the final movement, a set of variations, is commonly called �sublime�.