Mozart: Piano Concertos 24 and 25, Fantasia in D minor

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Avie / AV2175

Recorded live in November 2007 at the Sage Gateshead  

'This second instalment of Imogen Cooper's Mozart series with the trim and personable Northern Sinfonia juxtaposes the two climactic concertos of 1786: the sombrely dramatic C minor, and the Olympian C major. Perhaps K503's opening movement lacks something in majesty, for all Cooper's beauty of line and subtlety of colouring. But the finale is well-nigh ideal in its mingled grace and energy, its central oboe-piano love duet phrased with exquisite tenderness. Cooper finely balances passion and lyrical pathos in the outer movements of the C minor and distils a rarefied simplicity in the Larghetto, with delicately judged touches of ornamentation.'

Geoffrey Norris, The Telegraph, June 2008