Mitsuko Uchida & Jeffrey Tate: Mozart: Piano Concertos

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Piano Concertos (Mitsuko Uchida & Jeffrey Tate)
BoxSet [8 CDs]

Mozart 13 Berg 13 : P. Boulez, M. Uchida, C.Tetzlaff - Ensemble Intercontemporain

Mozart 13 : Serenade in B flat major for 13 Wind instruments Gran Partita K361-370a

Berg 13 : Chamber Concerto for piano violin and 13 Wind instruments

Mitsuko Uchida : Piano

Christian Tetzlaff : Violin

Enseble Intercontemporain

Pierre Boulez : Conductor

"There's a sense of fun, of genial affection for the music. Whether in the fluid lines of the tender Adagio or the yearning Andante, or in the bustling, concise finale, where everything - in the true spirit of opera buffa - seems to come right, Boulez makes plain his relish for the work [Mozart Gran Partita]. Berg's Chamber Concerto was also written for an auspicious event - the 50th birthday of his friend and mentor Arnold Schoenberg. ...what makes Mitsuko Uchida and Christian Tetzlaff outstanding is their feeling for the piece's inherent theatricality. ...Urchida brings to the opening variation set a breathtaking rhapsody... the Rondo ritmico, begins with a swirling cadenza. The freedom of the two players here is extraordinary, undoubtedly helped by the fact that they toured the work before taking it into the studio.” -- Gramophone Magazine, December 2008

“The Berg is superbly played… Christian Tetzlaff plays the solo violin part with breathtaking technical mastery…” -- BBC Music Magazine, December 2008 *****

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