莫札特:第17.18號鋼琴協奏曲 尚-艾弗藍．巴佛傑 鋼琴 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet / Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol.1

After demonstrating their 'innate love and
understanding of Haydn's music in performances of the
expected vivacity and insight' (BBC Music – CHAN
10808), Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy, the latter
conducting his Manchester Camerata, now explore
Mozart's extraordinarily prolific year 1784 in this new
series.

Two of the six concertos composed that year are heard
here, each unusual for having been written by Mozart
for another pianist and for featuring a central Andante,
instead of the more common Adagio.

This is a unique version that, as Bavouzet stresses in his
booklet note, 'although played unequivocally on
modern instruments, contrasts with those versions
made not so very long ago, which used a large
orchestra incorporating sixteen violins and eight
double-basses'. He adds: 'a versions which also will
take into account a number of performing practices
current in Mozart's time, such as the use of a solo
quartet to accompany certain well-defined passages in
which the piano is predominant. A version which in one
way or another aims to link tradition and modernity.'