Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 11

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The young Wolfgang's first concertos! This eleventh volume of the Mozart series with Jean Efflam Bavouzet and the Manchester Camerata adds the three youthful concertos that Mozart composed in 1771-72, all rewritten from keyboard sonatas by J.C. Bach. Bach had been something of a mentor to Mozart when he lived in London (1764-65), and these concertos draw not only on Bach's thematic material but are also very close to the galant style of which Bach was one of the main promoters. Mozart met the challenges of orchestration with great imagination and lightness. The overture to Mitridate, re di Ponto was composed for the Duke of Lombardy in 1770, when Mozart was fourteen, a year before the concertos. Once again, the collaboration between Jean Efflam Bavouzet and the Manchester Camerata is a very high-level success that serves the music above all.