Dejan Lazic - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 9; Rondo for Piano & Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Laurence Crane's music is thoroughly contemporary, but has hardly a dissonance in the whole 80 minutes of this CD. His music can be described as super-minimalist, but that would ignore the incredibly fine transitions of harmony and time embedded in his works. Ultimately this is music for the post-modernist age, and it can have no better advocate than Michael Finnissy, himself one of the foremost composers of our time.

Mozart Piano Concertos, Vol. 3. The concept behind our present undertaking, the Mozart Piano Concertos CD trilogy, is to present a range of concertos from Mozart's various compositional and performing periods, styles, techniques and instrumentations. Our endeavour is also linked with an encore-like single work on each CD, namely a Rondo. The additional connecting link between these six piano concertos is the Cadenzas & Lead-ins which Lazic has composed himself. Here he was inspired by the common practice of the composer's day.

Dejan Lazic is joined by friends for his first recording of chamber music in a long career. Mozart's two piano quartets are paired with Lazic's own arrangement of the Rondo Concertante K333. The result is the joyful, intimate music-making, that can be achieved by musicians who have a lifetime of performing together.