Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18 Olga Pashchenko & Il Gardellino

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238:
• 1 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238: I. Allegro aperto 06:48
• 2 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238: II. Andante un poco adagio 06:01
• 3 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat Major, KV 238: III. Rondeau. Allegro 06:51
• Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246:
• 4 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246: I. Allegro aperto 07:42
• 5 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246: II. Andante 07:58
• 6 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 in C Major, KV 246: III. Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto 06:58
• Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456:
• 7 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456: I. Allegro vivace 12:42
• 8 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456: II. Andante un poco sostenuto 10:30
• 9 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-Flat Major, KV 456: III. Allegro vivace 07:55
• Total Runtime 01:13:25

Info for Mozart: Piano Concertos 6, 8 & 18

Olga Pashchenko and Il Gardellino present a third recording of Mozart's piano concertos, following two volumes (Alpha 726 and 942) that were very well received by the press and the public: ‘The most exhilarating “authentic” Mozart I have ever heard,’ wrote The Spectator... In January 1776, Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 6, followed by the Eighth in April. Then aged 20, he did not want to shock the aristocracy of Salzburg and wrote simple music, but music that transports us ‘to the calm gentleness of a paradise garden, in the manner of the Elysian Fields evoked by Gluck and Rameau', as Olivier Messiaen said. Completed on 30 September 1784, Concerto K 465 remains shrouded in mystery as to when it was first performed. It is thought that Mozart premiered it in February 1785 in Vienna in front of his father Leopold, who wrote to his daughter Maria Anna that Wolfgang had triumphed and that the emperor took off his hat and exclaimed ‘bravo Mozart’! As with all her recordings, Olga Pashchenko has chosen appropriate instruments, a copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano (ca. 1792) by Paul McNulty and a copy of a Spath & Schmahl tangent piano, (Regensburg, 1794) by Chris Maene.

Olga Pashchenko, piano & direction
Il Gardellino

Olga Pashchenko
is one of today’s most versatile keyboard performers on the international stage. Equally at home on organ, harpsichord, forte and contemporary piano, she exudes a dynamic and passionate virtuosity through her colourful and highly sensitive performances of works ranging from baroque to contemporary.

From Bach and Beethoven on historical instruments to Ligeti on contemporary piano, Olga Pashchenko enjoys a busy and eclectic concert career as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She is a regular guest at early and contemporary music festivals alike, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival where she was Artist in Residence in 2016, the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, the Festival Musiq’3 in Brussels, the fortepiano festivals of Amsterdam, the Maggio Musicale Florence and fortepiano series of Milan and Padua, AMUZ Antwerp, Concertgebouw Bruges and the Cité de la Musique in Paris where she made her debut in 2016. As a concerto soloist, Olga has performed with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, musicAeterna with Teodor Currentzis, Meininger Hofkapelle, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and with Alexei Lubimov and Collegium 1704 under Vaclav Luks at the Chopin Festival, Warsaw and at the RSO Festival, Helsinki with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. Her chamber music partners include Alexander Melnikov, Evgeny Sviridov, Dmitry Sinkovsky and Erik Bosgraaf.

Olga Pashchenko has been Hausmusikerin at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn since 2012, where she gives regular recitals in the series Bongasse 20: music from Beethoven’s time.

Upcoming highlights include recitals with Georg Nigl at the Heidelberg Frühling and Salzburg Festival, a duo concert in Antwerp with Alexander Melnikov, a solo recital at the Moscow Philharmonic amongst others. Olga has an ongoing partnership with musician Jed Wentz with whom she collaborates on a special cinematic project, performing an array of new arrangements of romantic music to accompany a selection of silent films from the 1920s such as Tartuffe and Faust by F.W. Murnau and La glace à trois faces by Epstein.

An exclusive recording artist for Alpha Classics, Olga Pashchenko has released several critically acclaimed recordings including Transistions – a mixed recital programme of works by Dussek, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, an album of Beethoven Sonatas and most recently, an album of Dussek Concertos with Alexei Lubimov and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra as well as her performance of Debussy’s own arrangement of La Mer for piano four hands with Alexander Melnikov on Harmonia Mundi.

Olga Pashchenko was born in Moscow in 1986 and began her musical studies at the age of 6 at the Gnessin School of Music with Tatiana Zelikman, giving her first piano recital in New York at the age of 9. She continued her studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory studying forte and modern piano with Alexei Lubimov, harpsichord with Olga Martynova and organ with Alexei Schmitov before finishing her studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Richard Egarr in 2014.

In 2017, she was appointed as a Professor at the Sweelinck Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Royal Conservatory of Ghent.

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