Karin Kei Nagano, Cecilia String Quartet - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 13 (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:12 | 214 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta | Catalog: AN28765
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:12 | 214 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta | Catalog: AN28765
Mozart did, it's true, "authorize" the performance of some of his piano concertos by piano and string quartet, as the notes to this Analekta release point out. But, as a Vienna freelancer in uncharted territory, he could hardly have done otherwise, and to suggest, from the perspective of 21st century Canada and its social safety net, that this indicates anything about the desirability of such a performance is questionable. Truth to tell, these two concertos from 1782, although their wind parts are not as prominent as those in some of the later ones, still sound a bit bare in their contrasts between solo and tutti here.