| Dezsö Ránki (Steinway piano w/o lid) English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto In G Major, K.453 No.17 [32.12 total time] first movement, part one part two of the first movement is here: www.youtube.com Recorded at the Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, 15 November 1990 This is the fourth of six piano concertos Mozart composed in 1784. He hadn't composed any for two years, but did do more symphonies--in fact, all of his symphonies were done by 1784, except the last four. bio on Dezsö Ránki from the Budapest Festival Orchestra website: Dezsõ Ránki was born in Budapest in 1951, studied under Pál Kadosa, and rose to prominence in the early 70s as one of his generation's most outstanding pianists. His first international success was first prize in the Zwickau Schumann Piano Competition. He regularly performs in most European countries, in North and South America and in Japan. He has played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Orchestre National in Paris, the Tokyo NHK and several renowned conductors, such as Sir Georg Solti, Sándor Végh, Lorin Mazel, Zubin Mehta and Iván Fischer. Contemporary music is also very important in his life as an artist, in the last two decades he has given 10-15 concerts annually with his wife, Edit Klukon, interpreting pieces written for piano for four-hands. He has often played with the Budapest Festival ... |
