Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 12 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Andrea Nemecz, Rose McLachlan, Manchester Camerata & Gábor Takács-Nagy

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ((1756 - 1791): Idomeneo:
• 1 Mozart: Idomeneo: Overture 04:19
• Rondo in A Major, K. 386:
• 2 Mozart: Rondo in A Major, K. 386 09:34
• Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K. 242 "Lodron" for Three Pianos and Orchestra:
• 3 Mozart: Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K. 242 "Lodron" for Three Pianos and Orchestra: I. Allegro 08:26
• 4 Mozart: Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K. 242 "Lodron" for Three Pianos and Orchestra: II. Adagio 07:29
• 5 Mozart: Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K. 242 "Lodron" for Three Pianos and Orchestra: III. Rondeau 05:57
• Rondo in D Major, K. 382:
• 6 Mozart: Rondo in D Major, K. 382 10:10
• Overture to La finta semplice, K. 51:
• 7 Mozart: Overture to La finta semplice, K. 51: I. Molto allegro 02:27
• 8 Mozart: Overture to La finta semplice, K. 51: II. Andante 01:12
• 9 Mozart: Overture to La finta semplice, K. 51: III. Molto allegro 01:29
• Concerto No. 10 in E flat Major, K. 365:
• 10 Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E flat Major, K. 365: I. Allegro 09:55
• 11 Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E flat Major, K. 365: II. Andante 07:09
• 12 Mozart: Concerto No. 10 in E flat Major, K. 365: III. Rondeau 07:06
• Total Runtime 01:15:13

Info for Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 12

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's acclaimed cycle of Mozart's piano concertos reaches its conclusion with this twelfth volume. The programme offers a suitably celebratory mood: the Overtures to Idomeneo and La finta semplice frame the A major and D major Rondos for piano and orchestra and the Concerto for three pianos, and ends with the double piano concerto.

Bavouzet comments: 'As one reaches the conclusion of a series of recordings that has stretched over a long period of time, the feeling of fulness at having arrived at one's goal always blends with an immediate sense of nostalgia for the recording sessions, marvellous moments engaged in the search for a truth that always remains beyond reach. After a span of nine years, we arrive at the end of this complete recording project with the devoted members of Manchester Camerata and my friend Gabor Takacs-Nagy. Gabor's plan to combine them with operatic overtures was certainly most appealing, but the task of playing the entirety of this enormous corpus of concertos seemed to me gigantic! And then a few considerations very quickly made me conscious that a rare opportunity now presented itself to me, which it would have been ill- advised to pass up: this intense musical fellowship with Gabor and the joy of making music with him, the excellence of the members of Manchester Camerata and their untiring energy and suppleness in accepting our continual musical 'experimentations', and, finally, the wonderful chance for once in my life to have at my side a born, inspiring Mozartian, my wife, Andrea Nemecz.'

"Bavouzet plays a modern Yamaha CFX, yet the rhetoric is unshowily Classical: pedalling kept lean, phrase-ends released, ornaments articulated like speech. Gábor Takács-Nagy draws the Manchester Camerata into lithe, alert proportions, winds allowed to speak as characterful principals and strings kept buoyant, so that tuttis function less as weighty pillars than as dramatic cues." (SangKwon Lee, Gramophone)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Andrea Nemecz, piano
Rose McLachlan, piano
Manchester Camerata
Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He regularly works with the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK, Seoul Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic and collaborates with many renowned conductors including Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Neeme Järvi, Daniele Gatti, François-Xavier Roth, Ivan Fischer, Vasily Petrenko, Domingo Hindoyan, Pablo Heras Casado, Michele Spotti, Marko Letonja, Ludovic Morlot, Edward Gardner, Nicholas Collon, Louis Langrée, Kazuko Yamada, Pierre Bleuse, Pietari Inkinen, Sir Andrew Davis, Lawrence Foster, Leonard Slatkin, amongst others.

Engagements during the 2023/24 season include a Chinese tour with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Lan Shui, Les Siècles with Renaud Capuçon under the direction of Francois Xavier-Roth, performing both Ravel concerto with the Lähti Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, as well as Kyoto Symphony Orchestra under Junichi Hirokami with Bartok’s fiendish second piano concerto. He also appears with the Manchester Camerata at the Enescu Festival in Romania with Gábor Takacs-Nagy and with the Karol Szymanowski Filharmonia in Kraków, under the baton of Antoni Wit.

In recital, Bavouzet continues his three-year residency at the Wigmore Hall, titled ‘Autour de Debussy’, which includes solo recitals and chamber appearances with Steven Isserlis, Quatuor Danel and the Orsino Ensemble among others. His solo recital at Wigmore Hall in February shall consist of a unique pairing of Debussy, Liszt and Massenet, a programme which he shall also be taking to Sage Gateshead, SJE Oxford and Hamamatsu in Japan. Other recitals include a Rachmaninov-centred two-piano performance with the Chamber Music Society at New York’s Lincoln Centre.

Bavouzet’s previous notable performances include Carnegie Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Hall with Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonie de Paris with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, and a BBC Proms appearance with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Nicholas Collon. He has recently appeared with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, play-directed a three concerto programme with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and toured the Baltics with the Manchester Camerata. Bavouzet is also a frequent guest at the Verbier festival, having been invited not only to perform but to share his valuable insights and thoughts on music, in particular on Beethoven. In summer 2023, Bavouzet returned to perform at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, Bravo! Vail Festival and the Aspen Festival, finishing the tour at Finland’s Mänttä Music Festival.

Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos. One of the most recent releases, A Musical Tribute to Pierre Sancan with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier, won the Gramophone Editor’s Choice and Diapason d’Or awards. His complete Haydn Piano Sonatas series has been named « the modern benchmark » by Gramophone and « The Beethoven Connection » received numerous accolades from magazines including the New York Times, BBC Music Magazine and Classica. The recording of Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Bergen Philharmonic under Edward Gardner has been nominated for the Concerto category of the 2018 Gramophone Awards. Ongoing cycles include the complete Mozart Piano Concertos with the Manchester Camerata and Gábor Takács-Nagy, the fourth volume of which was nominated for Gramophone Award in 2020. In September of the same year, the complete Beethoven Concertos were released with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra play-directed by Bavouzet.

Other recordings include Bartók’s Piano Concerti and the complete Prokofiev Piano Concerti with the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda – the latter won the Concerto category of the 2014 Gramophone Awards. Under Yan-Pascal Tortelier, he recorded Stravinsky’s Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and the Ravel Piano concerti with the BBC Symphony Orchestra which won both a Gramophone and BBC magazine award. Bavouzet’s recordings have also garnered Diapason d’Or and Choc de l’Année awards.

Bavouzet has worked closely with Sir Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Zoltan Kocsis, György Kurtág, Maurice Ohana, Bruno Mantovani and Jörg Widmann and is also a champion of lesser-known French music, notably that of Gabriel Pierné and Albéric Magnard. He is the International Chair in Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music and an Advisory Board member of the Pianofest in the Hamptons. In 2012 he was ICMA Artist of the Year and in 2008 he was awarded Beijing’s first ever Elite Prize for his Beethoven complete sonata series.

Booklet for Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 12