Gulda plays Mozart & Gulda
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900713
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd June 2017
Contents
Works
Improvisation 1Improvisation 2
Piano Sonata no.10 in C major, K330
Rondo for piano and orchestra in A major, K386
Rondo for piano and orchestra in D major, K382
Artists
Friedrich Gulda (piano)Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Leopold HagerWorks
Improvisation 1Improvisation 2
Piano Sonata no.10 in C major, K330
Rondo for piano and orchestra in A major, K386
Rondo for piano and orchestra in D major, K382
Artists
Friedrich Gulda (piano)Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor
Leopold HagerAbout
On 27 June 1982, Gulda again appeared at Munich's "Klaviersommer" festival. His partner was the jazz pianist Chick Corea, and the collaboration of both musicians is documented on the CD (and DVD) "The Meeting" - a standard in recording history. Until now, only the famous second half of this concert has been available and not the first, which Gulda performed on his own and was devoted primarily to Mozart. Gulda thus used Mozart's piano music as a kind of introduction to the world of jazz improvisation.
The first part of this legendary concert, performed at the Deutsches Museum in the summer of 1982, took the soloist Gulda over 40 minutes to perform, even though he "only" played Mozart's Piano Sonata in C major, K330. But he began and ended it with his own improvisations, which sound less than Mozartian, even though they do contain a broad and subtle range of different styles and effects, catchy melodies, and violent cascades of sound. Gulda proves to be a highly gifted interpreter of Mozart as well as a mischievous improviser on the piano – who also wants to entertain and can do so on a high level. As a transition to the second part of the concert, he performs two of his own compositions, which can also be heard on this CD from BR-KLASSIK. It is a piece of good fortune that the Bayerischer Rundfunk has now made the first half of this concert event accessible to a wide audience too.
The recording begins and ends with Mozart's rarely-heard Rondos for Piano and Orchestra in A major, K386, and D major, K382. Gulda played them on 4 October 1969 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, accompanied by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Leopold Hager. Gulda plays cheerfully without the slightest audible effort, combining Mozart with the finesse of a grandiose performer who is in fact laughing up his sleeve.
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