Mozart: Klavierkonzerte - Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 25
CD is manufactured by PolyGram in Hanover, West Germany.[From the insert] "According to Mozart's own catalogue of his works the C major Concerto K. 503 was finished on 4 December 1786, two days before the 'Prague' Symphony. It was presumably intended for his winter concerts in Vienna and marks the end of an unusual phase of concerto activity, having the significance and character of a climactic work. The first movement in particular invites comparison with the C major triumph of the later 'Jupiter' Symphony (1788), but a glance at the tonic-and-dominant openings of the two works at once reveals the concerto's more spacious timescale and majestic concern with long paragraphs....""The F major Concerto K. 459 was the last of six piano concertos written in the annus mirabilis of 1784 for Mozart's subscription concerts or 'academies' in Vienna. Although it opens in a dotted rhythm similar to that in the three preceding concertos, the first movement's treatment of this figue is individual and all-pervading..."