Mozart Piano Concertos 11, 12, & 13 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata & Gábor Takács-Nagy

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384:
• 1 Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384: Overture 04:47
• Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K.413:
• 2 Mozart: Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K.413: I. Allegro 08:52
• 3 Mozart: Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K.413: II. Larghetto 07:24
• 4 Mozart: Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K.413: III. Tempo di menuetto 05:25
• Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414:
• 5 Mozart: Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414: I. Allegro 10:10
• 6 Mozart: Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414: II. Andante 07:58
• 7 Mozart: Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414: III. Rondeau 06:33
• Concerto No. 13 in C Major, K. 415:
• 8 Mozart: Concerto No. 13 in C Major, K. 415: I. Allegro 10:24
• 9 Mozart: Concerto No. 13 in C Major, K. 415: II. Andante 07:22
• 10 Mozart: Concerto No. 13 in C Major, K. 415: III. Rondeau 09:40
• Total Runtime 01:18:35

Info for Mozart Piano Concertos 11, 12, & 13

Die drei Konzerte, die auf diesem Album zu hören sind, wurden 1782/83 komponiert - kurz nachdem Mozart seinen Mäzen und seine Stellung in Salzburg verlassen hatte, um sich als freischaffender Komponist und Interpret in Wien zu etablieren. Die Konzerte wurden alle vom Komponisten in einer Reihe von Abonnementkonzerten aufgeführt, die er in der Stadt gab. Sie haben alle die gleiche Form - Eröffnungssatz in Sonatenform, langsamer Satz in Ternärform und ein helles Rondo-Finale. Trotz dieser Gemeinsamkeiten hat jedes Stück seinen eigenen Charakter und seine eigene Identität - so groß war Mozarts Erfindungsreichtum. Obwohl formal für Streicher mit Bläsern, Hörnern, Trompeten und Pauken besetzt, bot Mozart seinem Verleger an, sie "a quatro" - nur für Streicher - aufzuführen. Es sollten die letzten Konzerte sein, die er schrieb, bei denen dies möglich war, und es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass es sich dabei nicht um eine rein künstlerische Entscheidung handelte, sondern um die Notwendigkeit, mehr Geld zu verdienen. Wie auch bei den anderen Werken dieser Reihe wird Jean-Efflam Bavouzet von der Manchester Camerata und Gábor Takács-Nagy begleitet, die das Album mit einer umwerfenden Aufführung der Ouvertüre zu Die Entführung aus dem Serail eröffnen, die aus der gleichen Zeit stammt.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Klavier
Manchester Camerata
Gábor Takács-Nagy, Dirigent

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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