BIS Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Concertos

An ideal mixture of clarity and stylish effervescence (International Record Review) and a completely new, crisp Mozart-feel for the 21st century (Stereoplay) were just a couple of the reactions from reviewers to the fresh, sometimes bracing readings that Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie offered up during their series of Mozarts piano concertos. Released between 2010 and 2016, individual instalments also received special recommendations from websites and magazines such as Klassik-Heute, Luister, Scherzo and Gramophone, which listed the teams performances of concertos Nos 18 and 22 among its 50 greatest Mozart recordings. The discs have now been collected in a boxed set, with the addition of the double and triple concertos that Brautigam recorded in 2006 with Alexei Lubimov and Manfred Huss as his fellow soloists, accompanied by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. The set spans Mozarts entire career, from the 11-year old budding composers so-called pasticcio concertos (Nos 1-4) to Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat major, K595, which he gave the first performance of less than a year before his death in December 1791. The discs are accompanied by the original booklets, with informative liner notes by the musicologist John Irving, author of several books on Mozart.