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The stupendous marriage of Mozart and Nyman is an experience to behold, writes SIMON DUFF
Sebastian Knauer
Sebastian Knauer
The Mozart/Nyman Concert
(Modern Recordings)
GERMAN pianist Sebastian Knauer’s career spans more than three decades since his debut at the age of 14 at the Laeiszhalle concert hall in his home town Hamburg. He has performed in more than 50 countries with a varied and extensive repertoire.
Currently that’s reflected in more than 20 CD recordings, including Beethoven Rarities for DG, Haydn, Barber and Mendelssohn. He performed all 27 Mozart piano concertos and all Hayden concertos with the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Bamberg Symphony, leading both orchestras from the piano.
For his 50th birthday project in 2021, The Mozart/Nyman Concert, Knauer chose to perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Nyman, commissioning the latter to write six new piano compositions for him, in the style on Mozart.
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