Anne-Marie McDermott performs Mozart: Piano Concertos <BR> BRIDGE 9403The brilliant American pianist, Anne Marie McDermott is joined by the Calder Quartet in rarely heard recordings of the chamber versions of three Mozart concertos. Writing to his father in Salzburg on 28 December 1782, Mozart explained that These concertos are a happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult; they are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural without being vapid. There are passages here and there from which the

The Aeolian Chamber Players

and has established himself as a musican of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess

Rondo in D Major

this piece's driving rhythms and virtuosity were a perfect vehicle for the young composer/pianist

and Tappan Wilder

narrator and chamber orchestra

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James Avery

“It’s rare enough to have all four Gershwin works for piano and orchestra on a single disc but rarer still for each one to come near or top of the class

“Holzmair sings his ‘Die Nicht-Gewesenen’ with ardent and tender commitment

and if you’re a contemporary music lover this is a disc I think you will grow attached to

Bach's Partita in D Minor