Bavouzet/Camerata/Nagy - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 3

This third volume in the series from the electrifying combination of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Manchester Camerata under G�bor Tak�cs- Nagy explores the final two of the six piano concertos of the year 1784, on which Mozart staked his reputation as both a performer and composer. Alongside these works features the pioneering Quintet for Piano and Winds, also from 1784, the first written for this combination of instruments and a work which Mozart regarded as his finest to date. The consecutive K�chel numbers of the three piano works hint at a remarkable story: not only were they all written in the same extraordinarily productive year, but all were completed in the same month, March, when Mozart was just twenty-eight years old. The two concertos form a pair, and in letters to his father Mozart makes it clear that he wrote them for his own performance: �nobody but I owns these new concertos in B flatand D�, adding in another letter, two weeks later, �I consider them both to be concertos which make one sweat�. Heard in this context, Bavouzet�s playing is all the more astonishing.