Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.18 & 19

Another instalment in Uchida’s much-admired and Grammy-Award-winning Mozart piano concerto series with the Cleveland Orchestra. This new live recording combines the B flat major, No 18, K456 and the F major, No 19, K459, both part of the great series of piano concertos Mozart wrote in Vienna in the mid-1780s Like the composer at the premieres, Uchida directs from the keyboard and enjoys an unusual rapport with one of America’s ‘Big Five’ orchestras ‘Drawing sharper-than-usual contrasts between movements, the pianist, who also conducted, added narrative breadth to the concertos, thereby giving the works even more to say than usual.’ The Plain Dealer, Cleveland (on a concert performance of No.17)