If you love the music of Mozart the way I do, then this recording is your opportunity to “overdose”.
You get to listen to a whole lot of string quartets, and also the pianomquartet and an arrangement of the piano concerto number 12, as arranged for piano plus string quartet.
The Alban Berg Quartett is at the centre of this Mozart collection – quartets, quintets and a chamber version of the piano concerto K 414. The pleasures that await the listener are evoked by whar Gramophone magazine wrote: “The K 515 and K 516 Quintets are a real treat; the first movement of the G minor has an unusual urgency, and the lovely, balanced phrasing emphasises the singing, melodic nature of the music.
The CD of concert performances with Brendel is another high point… In the K 414 Concerto… the quartet’s accompaniments are exceptionally refined and intimate… Brendel is in particularly sprightly form in the finale.”
Here is the Piano Quartet number 2 by Mozart, as performed by the Alban Berg Quartet with pianisto Alfred Brendel:
