Mozart / Schoonderwoerd / Cristofori - Mozart: Piano Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mozart,W.A. / Cristofori / Schoonderwoerd - Piano Concertos [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/25/2016

In spite of the differences of time and distance, the choral works of the Australian composer Andrew Anderson (born in Melbourne in 1971) further the English cathedral tradition of such composers as Finzi and Howells, in music concerned particularly with lyricism and with clarity and directness of expression. The Consort of Melbourne is Melbourne's premier vocal ensemble, comprising eight of the city's finest chamber singers under the artistic direction of Steven Hodgson. Typically performing a capella with one singer per part, The Consort champions both historic and contemporary repertoire and was founded in 2008 by Warren Trevelyan-Jones and Peter Tregear. It is inspired by the best European musical traditions, to which it brings a uniquely Australian freshness and vitality.

Fortepianist Arthur Schoonderwoerd and his ensemble Cristofori present the fourth volume of their complete traversal of Mozart's Piano Concertos on the Accent tag with this of two early concertos, K238 and K246. Schoonderwoerd plays on a replica of a fortepiano by Späth & Schmahl from the last third of the eighteenth century. The recording is rounded off by two alternative cadenzas to K238 and the concert arias Si mostra la sorte and Con ossequio, con rispetto sung by the young Spanish tenor Francisco Fernández-Rueda.