The early death of award-winning pianist and conductor Lars Vogt on September 5, 2022 shocked profoundly the international music world. Some 16 months earlier, already aware of his diagnosis and in the middle of his treatment sessions, the artist had an urgent desire to record a Mozart piano concerto album together with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. He believed that performing these fantastic works that he so much admired would also be the best medicine for his condition. For this Mozart album Lars Vogt coupled two concertos: the early, exuberant Piano Concerto No. 9, ‘Jeunehomme’, written by Mozart in his early 20s, together with the melancholic and nostalgic Piano Concerto No. 24, which is considered by many as Mozart’s greatest piano concerto – a perfect closure to Lars Vogt’s final concerto album.
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Reviews
“… Vogt made his last stand on disc in magnificent fashion, and one doesn’t want to miss a note.”
Huntley Dent – Fanfare – May/June 2024
Critics’ Choice 2023
David Threasher - Gramophone magazine – December 2023
Isabel Herzfeld – Piano News (Germany) – January/February 2024
International Classical Music Award 2024 Nomination in the Concertos category
International Classical Music Awards 2024
“…Directing from the keyboard, he [Vogt] draws characterful accompaniments from the Paris Chamber Orchestra, against which his own playing is acutely responsive, weaving in and out of Mozart’s trademark operatic repartee between piano and winds and letting each voice come to the fore…”
David Threasher – International Piano – October 2023
Editor’s Choice – Orchestral Section
“Lars Vogt left behind only a handful of Mozart concertos, making this all the more precious.”
Harriet Smith – Gramophone magazine – Awards Issue 2023
Concerto Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
“Vogt’s lyrical phrasing incorporates unfailing attention to detail…”
Jessica Duchen – BBC Music magazine – November 2023
Overall Rating 9/10
“… Lars Vogt leaves us through this record a testimony of perseverance and unwavering optimism. He manages hands down to captivate us in the space of an hour while retracing a whole life course. A touching album to discover this September.”
Clément Bellenger – crescendomagazine.be – 2 September 2023
Pizzicato Supersonic
Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 31 August 2023
“…The slow movements, deeply felt, inevitably emerge with extra poignancy, but elsewhere Vogt revels in Mozart’s playful wit. The album is a fitting memorial to Vogt’s musicianship, courage and humanity …” ****
Geoff Brown – The Times – 30 August 2023
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