Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16 & 17

Claire Huangci, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Howard Griffiths

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K450
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K451
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart conductor, who considers that playing his music is like ‘looking in a mirror: you can hear if everything is in place, musicality, intonation, rhythm, phrasing’. For this fifth volume, the American pianist Claire Huangci joins the Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg and Howard Griffiths, her mentor for the past ten years. For her, she says, these concertos are ‘true musical revelations, works full of virtuosity and imagination’.