Jean Bavouzet -Efflam – Mozart: Pno Cons Vol. 12

Jean-Efflam Bovouzet’s acclaimed cycle of Mozart’s piano concertos reaches it’s conclusion with this twelfth volume. The programme offers a suitably celebratory mood: the Overtures to Idomeneo and La finta semplice frame the A major and D major Rondos for piano and orchestra and the Concerto for three pianos, and ends with the double piano concerto. Bavouzet comments: ‘As one reaches the conclusion of a series of recordings that has stretched over a long period of time, the feeling of fulness at having arrived at one’s goal always blends with an immediate sense of nostalgia for the recording sessions, marvellous moments engaged in the search for a truth that always remains beyond reach. After a span of nine years, we arrive at the end of this complete recording project with the devoted members of Manchester Camerata and my friend Gabor Takacs-Nagy. Gabor’s plan to combine them with operatic overtures was certainly most appealing, but the task of playi