Jeunehomme

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MOZART / HAYDN
Jeunehomme
Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, with Joyce DiDonato

[ Virgin Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 20 September 2014

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"Alexandre Tharaud is an atmospheric, characterful pianist whose individuality seems to communicate best on CD … Vivid imagination meets deliciously poised pianism." Nicholas Kenyon, The Observer, Sunday 24 November 2013

Tharaud returns with a an album of music by Haydn and Mozart, all composed between 1777 and 1786, including Mozart's masterpiece the Piano Concerto No.9 "Jeunehomme", widely regarded as one counting among his greatest works. The piano works are cleverly weaved together through the cadenzas. While he performs Mozart's cadenzas in the Piano Concerto No.9, Tharaud has written his own cadenza for the Rondo in A - employing themes from "Jeunehomme" - as well as for the Haydn Piano Concerto - in which he uses motifs from Mozart's famous Rondo "alla Turca", which with the final movement being a Rondo "all'Ungherese", gives the piece a truly Eastern European flavour.

The album sees Tharaud reunite with old friends - the award-winning French-Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy under the baton of their music director Bernard Labadie, and the outstanding mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Mozart's concert aria "Ch'io mi scordi di te?".

Tracks:

Haydn:
Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D major, HobXVIII:11
Cadenza: Alexandre Tharaud (with quotation of Marche Turque)

Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271 "Jeunehomme"
Rondo for Piano & Orchestra in A major, K386
Cadenza: Alexandre Tharaud (with themes of "Jeunehomme")
Ch'io mi scordi di te?... Non temer, amato bene, K505
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)