Mozart Anniversary Orchestra & James Ehnes - Mozart: The Complete Violin Concertos (2017)

It is hard to believe that one gets used to it; it is amazing that Mozart wrote his five Violin Concertos before the age of twenty; The maturity, especially of the latter two, is that of great masterpieces of maturity. Here is the integral, flanked by the three isolated movements (two Rondos, an Adagio) which are certain to be Mozart's, and other Concertos sometimes attributed to him by mistake or by facetiousness in the case of Henri Casadesus … The Canadian violinist James Ehnes, the "Jasha Heifetz of our time" from a very serious North American newspaper, has assembled here an improvised orchestra assembled in Toronto, the Mozart Anniversary Orchestra, Himself directs the violin. A very sober interpretation, in which the cadences are also signed by Ehnes.

TRACKLIST

CD1

01. Violin concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, K 207: I. Allegro moderato
02. Violin concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, K 207: II. Adagio
03. Violin concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, K 207: III. Presto
04. Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: I. Allegro moderato
05. Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: II. Andante
06. Violin concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: III. Rondeau (Allegro)
07. Adagio in E Major, K. 261
08. Rondo in B-Flat Major, K. 269 (K. 261a)
09. Rondo in C Major K. 373

CD2

01. Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216: I. Allegro
02. Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216: II. Adagio
03. Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216: III. Rondeau (Allegro)
04. Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218: I. Allegro
05. Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218: II. Andante cantabile
06. Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218: III. Rondeau (Andante grazioso)
07. Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish": I. Allegro aperto
08. Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish": II. Adagio
09. Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish": III. Rondeau (Tempo di Menuetto)