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Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | Dejan Lazić | Jan Willem de Vriend

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917294521
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Catalog number: CC 72945
Releasedate: 07-09-23
- A new, great project by Challenge Classics and Jan Willem de Vriend
- A new, inspiring collaboration with a first-rate pianist, Dejan Lazić, and one of European best orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic
- This is the first of three CDs devoted to Mozart’s Piano Concertos
- The project aims to display Mozart’s different styles and technique
- All Cadenzas and Lead-Ins are composed by Dejan Lazić himself

Dejan Lazić: The concept behind our present undertaking, the Mozart Piano Concertos CD-trilogy, is to bring together concertos of Mozart’s miscellaneous composing and performing periods, styles, techniques, and instrumentations side by side, thus to deeply examine and throughout his travels more closely explore his many creative phases within this genre. That is linked further with an encore-like single work on each CD, yet the additional connecting link between these initially planned six piano concertos is the Cadenzas & Lead-ins which I have composed myself.

Me and conductor de Vriend, partnering here together with the wonderful Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, we took a great care of the needs of Mozart’s music that was of course written for an instrument with a different timbre and dynamic range than the modern concert grand, thus carefully balancing the methods of playing: voicing, phrasing, articulation, rhetoric, and dynamics during solo, accompanied solo and tutti.