Angela Hewitt was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award in 2003 and was voted Gramophone's 'Artist of the Year' in 2006.
This album was recorded in July 2011 at Das Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel in Dobbiaco, Italy, using a Fazioli piano.
Mozart kept a meticulous list of his compositions until his death, but his expense notebook was less diligently maintained.
Angela Hewitt, the pianist on this recording, began her piano studies at age three and gave her first recital at nine.
Mozart owned a starling that learned the theme of the last movement of Piano Concerto No. 17, adding its own pause and sharpening a note.
Mozart composed in his head, not at the piano, and only wrote down his works as a final step.
Mozart left Salzburg in 1781 after being literally kicked out by Archbishop Colloredo's chamberlain, Count Arco.
