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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

PIANIST AT WORK

You began the complete Mozart Piano Concertos cycle for Chandos in 2016. What has the journey been like so far?

The first idea was to just record the six concertos Mozart wrote in 1784. But the chemistry between Gàbor Takàcs-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata was just too great to stop there! From the fourth recording we decided to include opera overtures written at the same period as the concertos, to emphasise their operatic qualities. So many slow movements

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