Hélène Grimaud Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23: II. Adagio
Hélène Grimaud considers the concerto in A major probably the most sublime concerto Mozart ever wrote, with a slow movement that is an extremely deep and painful expression of longing, where you find the real The concerto was a musthave for this collaboration. The concerto in F major K459 is less wellknown, but with a very special vitality and a virtuosic finale that is for Grimaud, pure pianistic pleasure. Besides the two concertos, the album includes the beautiful concert aria for orchestra, soprano and piano Ch io mi scordi di te, sung by Mojca Erdmann. The aria was Mozart s declaration of love to the soprano Nancy Storace, his Susanna in the world premiere of Le nozze di Figaro. It was composed in 1786, the same year as the Piano Concerto which it joins here. Watch Hélène Grimaud play the Adagio from Mozart s Piano Concerto no. 23, which recorded for her new album marking two firsts for Hélène Grimaud her first live DG recording and her first ever Mozart concerto recording.
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