The recording uses 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
Recording & Production
This album is part of a five-year project called 'Mozart, made in Manchester' to perform and record every Mozart Piano Concerto in The Stoller Hall, Manchester.
Recording & Production
The recording features Chetham's string students, reflecting a spirit of excellence, learning, and alliance inspired by conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mozart's music incorporates the 'galant' revolution trends, bringing a sense of balance and wholeness, embodying virtues of classical architecture, art, and rhetoric.
Composition History
The three works on this album were all composed in 1786, one of Mozart's most productive years, during which he also worked on 'Le nozze di Figaro'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Contrast is at the heart of Mozart's style, manifesting as opposition and reconciliation of polarities, like an 18th-century yin/yang schema.
Interpretation
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet dedicates this recording to Sir Georg Solti, who taught him to play Mozart with a legato and singing character while maintaining rhythmic precision.
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