Mozart: Piano Concertos K.415, 175, 503

Olivier Cavé has made several acclaimed discs for Aeon (Clementi, Haydn, Bach, Scarlatti). This student of Nelson Goerner, Maria Tipo and Aldo Ciccolini invariably impresses listeners with the refinement of his playing. This is an album of three piano concertos made with a conductor whose ventures into Mozart are always crowned with success: Rinaldo Alessandrini. The pair met at a concert in Toulouse and decided to record these masterpieces. Rinaldo Alessandrini formed an orchestra for the occasion, which he christened 'Divertissement'.

The album follows an interesting path from Mozart's youth to his maturity, a path that runs through three concertos, from no.5, composed when he was seventeen, to no.25, written the same year as Le nozze di Figaro, by way of the joyful and and subtle Concerto no.13, which he composed in 1783. All three are stylishly and nimbly performed here by the soloist and an orchestra containing a majority of Italian musicians.