Christian Zacharias, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausann - Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol 5 (2009) [SACD]

Midem Classique Award winner Christian Zacharias continues his survey of Mozart Piano Concertos as both performer & conductor. Featuring arguably 1 of the most famous, the A Major.
MDG’s complete recording of Mozart’s piano compositions with Christian Zacharias in the double role as pianist & conductor of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra continues with KV 488, certainly the most-performed piano concerto by the great Salzburg composer, complemented here by KV 246 & KV 175, Mozart’s very 1st piano concerto. Mozart himself regarded his 1st piano concerto of December 1773 as a gem. Five years later he continued to enjoy great success with it in Mannheim “because here it pleases quite well,” as he proudly reported to his father. Even at his Vienna academies of 1782-83 the concerto still figured significantly for him. When he sent its new finale, the Rondo (KV 382), to his father, he wrote, “I made it especially for me, & nobody but my dear sister can play it after me.”
“And just when you’re wondering if everything here & in the C major Concerto (K246) is is just a shade too polite, pianist & orchestra then bring out all the inventive roguishness of KV 175 in D major. Gorgeous SACD recorded sound is a further attraction.”Classic FM Magazine, November 2009