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Mozart - Piano Concertos 22 & 25 | Erato 6419640

Mozart - Piano Concertos 22 & 25

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Label: Erato

Cat No: 6419640

Barcode: 5099964196404

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 22nd November 2010

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Contents

Artists

David Fray (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Jaap van Zweden

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Piano Concerto no.22 in E flat major, K482
Piano Concerto no.25 in C major, K503

Artists

David Fray (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Jaap van Zweden

About

David Fray – named Instrumentalist of the Year in France’s Victoires de la Musique 2010 – retains his focus on Austro-German repertoire with his second CD of concertos for Virgin Classics. The response of The Sunday Times to his last solo release was: “No Schubert-lover should miss this piano recital by David Fray”, while The Guardian evoked “pianism of the highest class”.

In an interview with the French magazine Classica, Fray expressed his seriousness of purpose in music-making: “It is possible to obtain an infinite range of gradations with difference types of touch, though how they are achieved remains something of a mystery. You don’t know quite how you are doing it, but you have the impression of walking at the edge of a precipice … I can weight a five-part chord in a thousand different ways, but it mustn’t become a matter of demonstrating technical mastery.”

Everything should be for the sake of the music alone. Completely. Above all, I would like to advocate a certain vision of music and to make it accessible without altering its value or the level on which it operates. I am not here to ‘popularise’ music, because I believe profoundly that it doesn’t need to be popularised, being by its very nature accessible to everyone.”

Two of the names he cited in the interview came from much older generations, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Sviatoslav Richter: “I’ve always thoughts that your real age and your ‘internal’ age have nothing to do with each other”, he explained. “Schubert was dead at 31 and I am in my late twenties. I am not far from him. What matters is the relationship between you and a work, and what you have to say from inside that work. From Furtwängler I learned that you could give music enormous tension through the sheer power of persuasion.

I’m an old-fashioned musician, a craftsman who likes a job well done. I am distrustful of technology, but I understand it is something one has to accept and live with. The faults of our era must not contaminate or destroy what we are fundamentally and what we do as artists. Basically, I don’t like making compromises. I would like to reconcile the irreconcilable: flexibility and discipline; singing line and rhythmic energy; charm and gravitas, light-heartedness and tragedy … both as a musician and as a person.

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