These 3 innovative concertos – composed in the last four months of 1775 to entertain Mozart's noble employer and to mollify his father Leopold – show Wolfgang the wunderkind blossoming into a fully-fledged compositional genius. Andrew Manze plays his own cadenzas.
"His sense of fantasy permeated every flexible phrase." – The Evening Standard, UK (concert review)
Andrew Manze plays a violin by Joseph Gagliano, Naples, 1782.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART [1756-1791] Concerto in G major K.216 Sol majeur / G-dur · I. Allegro (9'03) · II. Adagio (8'21) · III. Rondeau: Allegro - Andante - Allegretto - Tempo primo (6'40) Concerto in D major K.218 Ré majeur / D-dur · I. Allegro (8'26) · II. Andante cantabile (7'00) · III. Rondeau: Andante grazioso - Allegro ma non troppo (7'09) Concerto in A major K.219 La majeur / A-dur · I. Allegro aperto - Adagio - Allegro aperto (9'25) · II. Adagio (10'23) · III. Rondeau: Tempo di Menuetto - Allegro - Tempo di Menuetto (9'03)
