BaL 15.09.18 - Mozart: Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra K365

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

09.30
Building a Library: Sarah Walker listens to some of the available recordings of Mozart's Concerto for two pianos E-flat major, K. 365 and makes a recommendation.
Mozart's ebullient and warm-hearted double piano concerto was written for him and his sister to play, a delightful demonstration of the overflowing affection he had for Nannerl. Feelings all the more heartfelt, perhaps, as he grimly returned home to Salzburg. Because the concerto was composed in the wake of a gruelling and bitterly disappointing 18-month tour around Europe during which his mother died, he was jilted by the love of his life, and he failed to secure the much hoped-for appointment which would have saved him from what he called his 'Salzburg slavery'.

Available versions:-

Géza Anda (piano), Clara Haskil, Philharmonic Orchestra, Alceo Galliera
Martha Argerich, Alexandre Rabinovitch, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, English Chamber Orchestra
Paul Badura-Skoda, Dagmar Bella-Sturk, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, English Chamber Orchestra
Malcolm Bilson, Robert Levin, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Ronald Brautigam, Alexei Lubimov, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (SACD)
Alfred Brendel, Imogen Cooper, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Alfred Brendel, with Walter Klein, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Paul Angerer
Wolfgang Brumner, Florian Birsak, Salzburger Hofmusik (download)
Robert Casadesus, Gaby Casadesus, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Mitropoulos
Robert Casadesus, Gaby Casadesus, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Duo Crommelynck, Venice and Padua Chamber Orchestra, Bruno Giuranna
Karl Engel, Till Engel, Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg, Leopold Hager (download)
Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz, London Philharmonic Orchestra (download)
Robert Fizdale, Arthur Gold, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Andor Foldes, Carl Seemann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann
Emil Gilels, Elena Gilels, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm (DVD)
Emil Gilels, Elena Gilels, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Emil Gilels & Yakov Zak, USSR State Orchestra, Kyrill Kondrashin
Håvard Gimse, Vebjørn Anvik, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown (download)
Carlo Grante, Barbara Panzarella, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Bernhard Sieberer
Grauschumacher Piano Duo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ruben Gazarian
Sepp Grotenhuis, Ellen Corver, Amsterdam Mozart Players, Juergen Kussmaul
Derek Han, Wu Han, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Massimo Quarta (download)
Clara Haskil, Geza Anda, Salzburg Camerata Academia, Bernhard Paumgartner (download)
Marie-Luise Hinrichs, Christian Zacharias
Jos van Immerseel & Yoko Kaneko, Anima Eterna Brugge
Iturbi & Amparo Iturbi, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Jeno Jando, Denes Varjon, Concentus Hungaricus, Matyas Antal
Lucas Jussen, Arthur Jussen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Z. Kocsis, D. Ránki, Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (download)
Rostislav Krimer, Paul Badura-Skoda, Klaipėda Kammerorkester, Andres Mustonen (download)
Jürgen Kussmaul, Amsterdam Mozart Players
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Berliner Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov
Juliane Lerche, Ingeborg Herkommer, Weimar Staatskapelle, Gerhard Pfluger (download)
Hephzibah Menuhin, Fou Ts'ong, Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin
Laura Mikkola, Philippe Entremont, IITTI Festival Orchestra, Philippe Entremont
Tatiana Nikolayeva, Eliso Virsaladze, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Saulius Sondeckis (download)
James Parker, Jon Kimura Parker, CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (download)
Güher & Süher Pekinel, English Chamber Orchestra Sir Colin Davis (DVD)
Pekinel Sisters, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Ladislav Slovak (download)
Murray Perahia, Sir Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu, English Chamber Orchestra
Joshua Pierce, Dorothy Jonas, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Freeman (download)
Artur Schnabel, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Carl Seemann, Andor Foldes, Berlin Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Lehmann
Peter Serkin, Rudolf Serkin, Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Alexander Schneider
Jonathan Shames, Constantine Orbelian, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Nanse Gum
Silver-Garburg Piano Duo, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Mickelthwate (download)
Marco Sollini, Salvatore Barbatano, Orchestra Sinfonica del Festival, Daniele Moles
Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Bruno Weil
Valerie Tryon (piano), Peter Donohoe, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Boris Brott
Natalia & Lev Vlasenko, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (download)
Mikhail Voskresensky, Stanislav Igolinsky, Pavel Slobodkin Centre Orchestra, Konstantin Maslyuk
Vitaya Vronsky, Victor Babin, London Mozart Players, Harry Blech
Anna & Ines Walachowski, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Marcus Bosch
Earl Wild, Zaidee Parkinson, National Philharmonic, Richard Dufallo

[pastoralguy]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

+1

Interesting to see that the first edition (at least) of the new series of Record Review is to be presented by Tom McKinney, not AMcG.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000d1k

[verismissimo]

My two versions on CD, neither of them on Alpie's fine list, are:

Ingrid Haebler, Ludwig Hoffman, London Symphony Orchestra, Alceo Galliera
Viviana Sofronitsky, Linda Nicholson, Musica Antiqua Collegium Varsoviense

It's the latter that I'll be revisiting this morning …

[cloughie]

My two versions on CD, neither of them on Alpie's fine list, are:

Ingrid Haebler, Ludwig Hoffman, London Symphony Orchestra, Alceo Galliera
Viviana Sofronitsky, Linda Nicholson, Musica Antiqua Collegium Varsoviense

It's the latter that I'll be revisiting this morning …

Gilels, Gilels VPO coupled with K595 is one of my first choice Mozart discs of all time.

[BBMmk2]

Ah well, first BaL, and I won't be affected by it!

[verismissimo]

Ah well, first BaL, and I won't be affected by it!

Don't imagine Mozart will be unduly bovvered, BBM. :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ah well, first BaL, and I won't be affected by it!

I bet you will ask who won.

[Barbirollians]

Gilels, Gilels VPO coupled with K595 is one of my first choice Mozart discs of all time.

Seconded

[Barbirollians]

Ah well, first BaL, and I won't be affected by it!

It is a lovely piece BBM - you should give it a go.

[BBMmk2]

I bet you will ask who won.

Nope!

Barbs, I don't think so!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nope!
Barbs, I don't think so!

Wot! Not even with Martha Argerich?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You're tempted now, aren't you, Bbm?

[visualnickmos]

I listened to this wonderful Mme & M Gilels recording. Mozart doesn't come much better than this

Just about to listen to Messrs. Lupu & Perahia

[pastoralguy]

I pulled our box set of the Mozart piano concertos played by András Schiff with Sandor Végh conducting the Salzburg Mozart Camerata only to find there's no recording of the Double or Triple Concertos.

Very sad news.