GREAT RECORDINGS phase 12

MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS Nos.21 & 22
Annie Fischer
Philharmonia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch

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'I can find no praise too high for Annie Fischer's playing, for she makes every phrase a delight. Sawallisch partners his soloist to perfection. Everybody has here combined to produce something really outstanding among recordings of Mozart concertos.' (Gramophone)

The Hungarian pianist Annie Fischer was born in Budapest in 1914 and won the International Liszt Competition there in 1933. Subsequently, she enjoyed a hugely successful international career and became, in the words of Sviatoslav Richter, 'a great artist imbued with a spirit of greatness and with genuine profundity.'

This CD contains celebrated recordings of two Mozart concertos - the popular C major (nowadays informally tagged with the name of the film 'Elvira Madigan', which has made the work even more widely popular) and the E flat concerto written in the same year, 1785.

The performances were recorded at Abbey Road Studios in March 1958 with Walter Legge's superb Philharmonia Orchestra and the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, then in his mid-thirties and on the cusp of his own distinguished international career.