[ Philips Mozart Collection / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 12 December 2005
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Gramophone has described Brendel's partnership in Mozart with Sir Neville Marriner as having produced "some of the most exultant music making on record... a ready and attentive response to the greatest of all concertos, to music in which rain and sunshine, tears and laughter are inextricably mixed."
Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide
"This must be the Mozartian bargain of all time...to say nothing of the distinction of the performances."
- Penguin Stereo Guide
Working together in perfect harmony - Brendel once described Marriner as "an extension of my right arm" -
pianist and conductor here perform two of the greatest works to have come from Mozart's pen, the intense D minor and moving A major Piano Concertos. Gramophone has described Brendel's partnership in Mozart with Sir Neville Marriner as having produced "some of the most exultant music making on record... a ready and attentive response to the greatest of all concertos, to music in which rain and sunshine, tears and laughter are inextricably mixed."
Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K488
Concert Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in D major, K382 Concert Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in A major, K386