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W. A. MOZART

3 Violin Concertos

 

Concerto in G major K. 216, Concerto in D major K. 218, Concerto in A major K. 219

 

Andrew Manze (violin)

 

The English Concert

 

These three 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 child prodigy blossoming into a fully-fledged compositional genius. Andrew Manze plays his own cadenzas.

 

"His sense of fantasy permeated every flexible phrase."

The Evening Standard (concert review)

 

Harmonia Mundi HMU907385