Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 25

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1. Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 -Allegro

2. Andante

3. Presto

4. Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 508 - Allegro Maestoso

5. Andante

6. Allegro

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Album Description
Mark Salman (pianist) with Christophe Chagnard (conducting the Northwest Sinfonietta) performs two of the more popular, late Mozart Concertos with cadenzas written by the pianist.

Customer Reviews:

25 Classical Heartbreakers.......2006-11-29

Although these are popular and widely heard compositions (that's why I gave it 4 stars) they are very soothing when you want to mellow out. However, I can't understand why the title reads '20 Classical Heartbreakers' when there are 25 pieces.

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Mozart- Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 1, 3- Geza Anda (2 CDs)

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Mozart- Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 1, 3- Geza Anda (2 CDs)

Manufacturer: Aquarius
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Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002ZZWPG

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791). CD1. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 22 in E flat major, K. 482: 1. Allegro (Cadenza: Anda) 2. Andante 3. Allegro (Cadenza: Anda). Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 23 in A major, K. 488: 4. Allegro (Cadenza: Mozart) 5. Adagio 6. Allegro assai. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 3 in D major, K. 40: 7. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza: Mozart) 8. Andante 9. Presto. CD 2. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 24 in C minor, K. 491: 1. Allegro (Cadenza: Anda) 2. Larghetto 3.(Allegretto) (Cadenza: Anda). Concerto for Piano and Orhestra no. 25 in C major, K. 503: 4. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza: Anda) 5. Andante 6.(Allegretto). Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in F major, K. 37: 7. Allegro 8. Andante (Cadenza: Anda) 9.(Allegro) (Cadenza: Anda). GEZA ANDA, Piano and Conductor. Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarteums. Recorded in 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968.

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Uplifting Music...and Original Cadenzas

Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 25

Manufacturer: Immortal Classics
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006B4PQI
Release Date: 2001-08-01

Tracks:

Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 -Allegro
Andante
Presto
Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 508 - Allegro Maestoso
Andante
Allegro

Album Description

Mark Salman (pianist) with Christophe Chagnard (conducting the Northwest Sinfonietta) performs two of the more popular, late Mozart Concertos with cadenzas written by the pianist.

Customer Reviews:

Uplifting Music...and Original Cadenzas.......2005-08-24

Marvelous CD! Loved its pure lyricism and the ease with which Salman runs his fingers over the keys. It's really an inspiring, uplifting performance! Salman takes you on a journey from the depth of emotional tones to the lightness of the airy notes to create beauty. I experience such joy when I listen to his music. And, he compliments his sensitive interpretation by playing with such authority and energy.

What's really unique about this CD is that Salman has composed and plays original cadenzas for both Concertos...since Mozart didn't write one himself. The cadenza in #25 shows his versatility as an artist and the connection he has to this piece. Mozart would be proud! Buy one and listen for yourself.

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The Greatest Classical Collection

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Release Date: 1994-07-12

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Great Composers Collection

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Tracks:

The Well Tempered Clavier: Prelude and Fugue In C Major, BWV 846
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 In G Major, BWV 1048: Allegro
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 In G Major, BWV 1048: Adagio
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 In G Major, BWV 1048: Allegro
Concerto In A Minor, BWV 1004 For Flute, Violin, Harpsichourd And Basso Continuo: Allegro
Concerto In A Minor, BWV 1004 For Flute, Violin, Harpsichourd And Basso Continuo: Adagio ma non tanto e dolce
Concerto In A Minor, BWV 1004 For Flute, Violin, Harpsichourd And Basso Continuo: Alla breve
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Overture
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Rondeau
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Sarabande
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Bouree I
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Bouree II
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Polonaise I
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Polonaise II
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Double
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Menuetto
Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067: Badinerie
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: (Without Indication)
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: Andante
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: Presto

Tracks:

Symphony No.5 in C minor op.67:: Allegro con brio
Rondo a capriccio in G major op.129: 'The Rage Over The Lost Penny'
Septet op.20 in E flat major: Menuetto
Overture Op.72a: Leonore
Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor (Moonlight): Adagio sostenuto
Sonata in A major op.47 (Kreutzer): Finale-Presto
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in E flat major op.73 (Emperor): Adagio un poco mosso
Bagatelle in A minor No.59: Fur Elise
Symphony No.9 In D Minor Op.125: Finale: Ode To Joy

Tracks:

Prelude In D Flat Major 'Raindrops': 1. op. 28 No.15
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor op.21: Maestoso
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor op.21: Larghetto
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor op.21: Allegro vivace
Ballad No. 1 in G minor op 23
Fantasy - Improptu op. 66
Etude In C Minor Op.10 No.12 'Revolution': Allegro con fuoco
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor op.31
Waltz No. 6 in D flat major op.64-1:

Tracks:

Watermusic, Suite:: Allegro
Watermusic, Suite:: Air
Watermusic, Suite: Bourree
Watermusic, Suite: Hornpipe
Watermusic, Suite: Andante espressivo
Watermusic, Suite: Hornpipe II
'Xerxes': Largo
Music of the Royal Fireworks, Suite: Overture
Music of the Royal Fireworks, Suite: Burree
Music of the Royal Fireworks, Suite: La paix (The Peace)
Music of the Royal Fireworks, Suite: La rejouissance (The Joy)
Music of the Royal Fireworks, Suite: Menuett I
Music of the Royal Fireworks, Suite: Menuett II
Concerto grosso op.10 No.10 ('Alexander Feast'): Overture
Concerto grosso op.10 No.10 ('Alexander Feast'): Allegro
Concerto grosso op.10 No.10 ('Alexander Feast'): Air: Lentement
Concerto grosso op.10 No.10 ('Alexander Feast'): Allegro
Concerto grosso op.10 No.10 ('Alexander Feast'): Allegro
Concerto grosso op.10 No.10 ('Alexander Feast'): Allegro moderato
Gavotte and Passepied
'The Messiah': Hallelujah

Tracks:

Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 1 In E Flat Major: Allegro maestoso
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 1 In E Flat Major: Quasi Adagio
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No. 1 In E Flat Major: Allegro marziale animato - Presto
Love Dream No. 3 In A Flat Major: Piano solo
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 In C Sharp Minor: Piano solo
Evening Harmony In D Flat Major: Piano solo
Large Orchestra: 'Mephisto-Waltz'
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat major: Orchestra

Tracks:

'A Little Night Music' Serenade No.13 In G Major KV525: Allegro
'A Little Night Music' Serenade No.13 In G Major KV525: Romanza: Andante
'A Little Night Music' Serenade No.13 In G Major KV525: Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto: Allegretto
'A Little Night Music' Serenade No.13 In G Major KV525: Rondo: Allegro
Symphony No.41 In C Major KV 551: Molto Allegro
The Magic Flute KV 620: Oveture
12 Variations About ' - ' KV265: 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman'
Symphony No.40 in G minor KV 550: Molto allegro
Sonata for Piano No.11 in A major KV 331: Rondo alla turca
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.23 in A major KV 488: Allegro

Tracks:

Orchestra: Bolero
Poeme choregraphique - for Orchestra: La Valse
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major: Allegremente
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major: Adagio assai
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major: Presto
Orchestra: Rhapsodie Espagnole

Tracks:

1. Op. 437: Emperor Waltz
Waltz op.314: The Blue Danube
Fast Polka op.324: Thunder and Lightning
Waltz op.410: Voices of Spring
A musical joke op. 257: Perpetuum mobile
Waltz op.354: Venna Blood
Op.214: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
The Bat: Overture
Treasure Waltz op. 418: The Gypsy Baron

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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor op.23: Allegro non tropo e molto maestoso - Allegro con brio
Nutcracker Suite op.71a: Flower Waltz
Nutcracker Suite op.71a: Dance of the Reed Flutes
Overture solenelle '1812' Op.49
Swan-Lake Suite op20a: Lake in the Moonlight
Swan-Lake Suite op20a: Hungarian Dance
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op.35: Canzonetta: Andante
Symphony No. 6 in B minor op.74: Finale: Adagio lamentoso

Tracks:

Concerto NO.1 op.8 IN E: Allegro
The Spring Op.8 No.1: Largo e pianissimo sempre
The Spring Op.8 No.1: Allegro (Danzo pastorale)
The Summer Op.8 No.2: Allegro non molto - Allegro, e tutto sopra il Canto
The Summer Op.8 No.2: Adagio e piano
The Summer Op.8 No.2: Presto, tempo impettuoso d'Estate
The Autumn Op.8 No.3: Allegro
The Autumn Op.8 No.3: Adagio molto
The Autumn Op.8 No.3: La Caccia (Allegro)
The Winter Op.8 No.4: Allegro non molto
The Winter Op.8 No.4: Largo
The Winter Op.8 No.4: Allegro
Concerto for two Trumpets and String Orchestra:: Allegro
Concerto for two Trumpets and String Orchestra: Largo
Concerto for two Trumpets and String Orchestra: Concerto for two Trumpets and String Orchestra: Allegro
Concerto For Flute And Orchestra In G Minor Op.10 No.2: Largo 'Fantasy', Presto
Concerto For Flute And Orchestra In G Minor Op.10 No.2: Allegro
Concerto For Flute And Orchestra In G Minor Op.10 No.2: Largo 'Il Sonno'
Concerto For Flute And Orchestra In G Minor Op.10 No.2: Allegro
Concerto For Strings And Basso Continuo In G Major 'All Rustica' RV 151: Presto
Concerto For Strings And Basso Continuo In G Major 'All Rustica' RV 151: Adagio
Concerto For Strings And Basso Continuo In G Major 'All Rustica' RV 151: Allegro

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 23 and 25

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Perfect
Great performer with class and big heart
Elegant Mozart in Live Performances

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 23 and 25

Manufacturer: Artek
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CGYODQ
Release Date: 2006-01-17

Tracks:

Allegro Maestoso
Andante
Allegretto
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro Assai
Allegro Vivace
Andantino
Allegro Ma Non Troppo

Customer Reviews:

Perfect.......2007-01-17

The CD is of course Mozart. Enough said on that score? Add to that Jorge Osorio's keyboard virtuosity and the bar is raised to new heights. Jorge's timing is so perfect that it must have been a joy for Carlos Prieto to conduct. I found myself tapping my finger during the first concerto (#25) and marveling that Jorge was exactly where he should be every tap, no matter how challenging the material. Top this with the recording expertise of ARTEK (the fidelity is superb) and you truly end up with a winner. Would that Mozart were still alive to hear his work played this flawlessly by a modern symphony orchestra, accompanied by Osorio's magic hands. I enthusiastically recommend this recording be included on every Amadeus-lover's shelf.

Great performer with class and big heart.......2006-08-04

I have just purchased this disc, because my wife and I recently heard Mr. Osorio at Ravinina festival in Chicago (7/30/06), playing Mozart's 14th and 23rd piano concertos. It was an unforgetable evening, primarily because we were able to sit so close to this man's masterful playing (we were 2nd row center). Mr. Osorio exudes class and an old world shyness and humility. I had never heard the 14th concerto until this night, so that was a treat. However, I had heard many recordings of the 23rd and have always enjoyed it. The adagio is one of Mozart's most deepest, in my humble opinion, and Mr. Osorio played it so beautifully, it was very difficult to hold back the tears for both myself and my wife. I would highly recommend this recording, but would even more recommend that you hear this man play live... and sit close!

Elegant Mozart in Live Performances.......2006-01-31

Jorge Federico Osorio is a Mexican pianist whose elegant playing has been in evidence in previous releases of music by Hispanic composers as well as a number of Brahms works, including the Second Piano Concerto and the violin sonatas with violinist Elmar Oliveira. Here he plays three of Mozart's most familiar concerti with what appears to be an ad hoc orchestra called the Mozart-Haydn Festival Orchestra, associated with a festival that takes place annually in Mexico City. The orchestra is led by the fine young Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto (who, by the way, had been slated to be the new music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic prior to Hurricane Katrina; one wonders what will happen with that appointment). The dates of these live performances are not given but from the excellent sound one assumes they were given in recent years.

Osorio's playing is characterized by limpid clarity, musicianly phrasing and an ability to make coherent formal statements in these classically structured works. The recorded sound of the piano is a bit forward, but one can also generally hear everything that happens in the orchestra. The winds in particular are fine, but that bustling bassoon figure, so engaging when emphasized, in the final movement of the 23rd Concerto in A Major, K.488, gets a bit buried by the strings. The two clarinets in the same concerto (one of only three Mozart piano concertos that use clarinets) are simply marvelous. This wonderful concerto was written at about the same time as Marriage of Figaro and one can hear that. The middle movement in F sharp minor partakes of the same sort of delicate sadness as the Countess's 'Porgi amor.' Osorio plays the middle movement gorgeously and he is given a silken pillow of orchestral sound.

The other concerti are given equally fine performances. Aside from occasional audience noise and a few minor instrumental bobbles in the orchestra (plus a sometimes brash overeagerness) these are treasurable performances.

If you don't know the playing of Osorio, you are in for a treat.

Scott Morrison

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Barenboim's Mozart
sounds like Beethoven but still wonderful

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20-27

Manufacturer: Teldec
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ASIN: B000000SDY
Release Date: 1992-04-28

Tracks:

Piano Concerto No. 20 In D Minor, K. 466: Allegro - Cadenza: Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 20 In D Minor, K. 466: Romance
Piano Concerto No. 20 In D Minor, K. 466: Allegro assai - Cadenza: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Concerto No. 21 In C Major, K. 467: [Allegro maestoso] - Cadenza: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Concerto No. 21 In C Major, K. 467: Andante
Piano Concerto No. 21 In C Major, K. 467: Allegro vivace assai - Cadenza: Daniel Barenboim

Tracks:

Piano Concerto No. 22 In E Flat Major, K. 482: Allegro - Cadenza: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Concerto No. 22 In E Flat Major, K. 482: Andante
Piano Concerto No. 22 In E Flat Major, K. 482: Allegro - Andante cantabile - Tempo primo - Cadenza: Edwin Fischer (Abridged)
Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major, K. 488: Allegro - Cadenza: Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major, K. 488: Adagio
Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major, K. 488: Allegro assai

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Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K. 491: Allegro - Cadenza: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K. 491: Larghetto
Piano Concerto No. 24 In C Minor, K. 491: Allegretto
Piano Concerto No. 25 In C Major, K. 503: Allegro maestoso - Cadenza: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Concerto No. 25 In C Major, K. 503: Andante
Piano Concerto No. 25 In C Major, K. 503: Allegretto

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Piano Concerto No. 26 In D Major, K. 537: Allegro - Cadenza: Wanda Landowska
Piano Concerto No. 26 In D Major, K. 537: [Larghetto]
Piano Concerto No. 26 In D Major, K. 537: [Allegretto]
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595: Allegro - Cadenza: Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595: Larghetto
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595: Allegro - Cadenza: Mozart

Customer Reviews:

Barenboim's Mozart.......2006-03-02

Thre is no better Mozart interpreter than Daniel Barenboim. His talent and expertise is, of course, superior. That is not just my opinion. Everyone agrees with that. But the point here is the expression and "elan" he brings to Mozart. Compared to Mr, Barenboim, everyone else sounds dull and stoggy. I no longer care to listen to any of the others.

Mozart is arguablly the most talented of composers and Barenboim is perhaps the most talented of the current performers of his music.

sounds like Beethoven but still wonderful.......2006-02-02

Barenboim's tone is firm and has a good edge around it. It reminds me piano's sound comes from a hammer hitting a string - even when he plays softly. More punch and clarity compared to any other version. His interpretation is romantic and virtuosic.
Berlin Phil's sound is rich and grand - exactly opposite of the historically informed performance practice. A little pompous but still top-notch.
Perahia and Brendel both offer more intimate renditions. Especially Perahia's playing has everything you ever want for Mozart - lyrical, lively, tender, bittersweet......simply heart-stopping. If the recording quality was above average, his recordings would be undoubtedly my first choice. Brendel's playing is insightful and full of beautiful moments. But he tends to be too deliberate to create peculiar tones he wants and to deliver more legato.
If you think you will enjoy a very well-played and extremely well-recorded Mozart's concertos with a slight hint of Beethoven, Barenboim is your guy.

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