Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 25 (Arr. for Piano and String Quintet by Ignaz Lachner)

Featuring

Alon Goldstein
Lizzie Burns
Ralph Evans
Efim Boico
Gil Sharon
Niklas Schmidt

Fine Arts Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Recording & Production

This album features world premiere recordings of Ignaz Lachner's arrangements of Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25.

Compositional Technique

The central theme of the third movement of Piano Concerto No. 19 is derived from Haydn's Symphony No. 78, discovered by Joshua Rifkin.

Composition History

Mozart's trip to Frankfurt for the coronation, where he performed Concerto No. 19, was unsuccessful, with his concert being ill-attended and upstaged by imperial events.

Composition History

The Piano Concerto No. 19 is sometimes called the 'First Coronation Concerto' because Mozart performed it in Frankfurt for Leopold II's election as Holy Roman Emperor.

Compositional Technique

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 is highly symphonic in conception, stretching the concerto genre with its grandiose dimensions and dramatic shifts between major and minor modes.

Interpretation

Ignaz Lachner, a composer and conductor, rearranged 19 of Mozart's concertos, including the two on this recording, likely for domestic use without a full orchestra.