Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol.3 – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

   in Piano International (Jan, 2019)
These three works were composed in the course of a single month in 1784. (Let that sink in for a moment…) The three manuscripts were dated respectively 15, 22 and 30 March, written primarily for the composer to perform himself. They are full of the joys of youth and life, perhaps in recognition of his wife Constanze’s second pregnancy (she gave birth to their son Karl the following September).

In K450 and K451, Mozart really started to refine his ideal of the concerto form, with more emphasis on the woodwind – adding a flute in the rondo finale – and increasingly the diffi culty of the work, especially in that final …