Händel: Piano Concertos Nos. 13-16 Matthias Kirschnereit

• 1 I. Larghetto 02:42
• 2 II. Allegro 03:27
• 3 III. Larghetto 03:10
• 4 IV. Allegro 02:55
• 5 I. Largo e staccato 04:29
• 6 II. Andante 04:49
• 7 III. Grave: Organo ad libitum 00:50
• 8 IV. Allegro 05:19
• 9 I. Andante 05:32
• 10 II. Organo adagio ad libitum 00:27
• 11 III. Allegro 04:02
• 12 I. Ouverture 01:32
• 13 II. Allegro 02:50
• 14 III. Organo ad libitum 01:21
• 15 IV. Allegro ma non troppo 02:58
• 16 V. Adagio 01:33
• 17 VI. Andante 04:19
• 18 VII. Allegro 01:36
• 19 VIII. Marche, Allegro 01:33
• Total Runtime 55:24

Info for Händel: Piano Concertos Nos. 13-16

J. S. Bachs harpsichord concertos belong to the standard repertoire of all world-class pianists; the resulting principle of instrumental transference operating here also applies to Handel. The composer wrote sixteen organ concertos; six each form the opus groups 4 and 7. Matthias Kirschnereit has now recorded the four concertos without opus numbers (Nos. 13-16), including the famous F major concerto popularly known as The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.

Matthias Kirschnereit, piano
Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss
Lavard Skou Larsen, conductor

Matthias Kirschnereit
is one of the most sought-after pianists of our time. Born in 1962, the pianist has been thrilling concert audiences in Germany, Europe, America and East Asia for around four decades. He performs worldwide with leading orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, New City Philharmonic Orchestra Tokyo, Het Residentie Orkest Den Haag, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Camerata Salzburg and Münchener Kammerorchester. Matthias Kirschnereit has worked with the conductors Hartmut Haenchen, Marcus Bosch, Christopher Hogwood, Andrew Manze, Sándor Végh, Michael Sanderling, Frank Beermann, Alexander Liebreich, Ariane Matiakh, Yuri Temirkanov and Alondra de la Parra.

Almost 40 recordings document his work, from the early prizewinner CD of the German Music Competition in 1989 to the complete recording of all Mozart piano concertos together with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the 2019 album “Concertant” with all works for piano and orchestra by Robert Schumann (together with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Jan Willem de Vriend) to the latest recording in 2022: The complete recording of the rarely performed Haydn piano concertos with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn (play&lead).

He has long been passing on his experience and convictions to the next generation of musicians as a professor at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre. Kirschnereit is passionately committed to the “Rhapsody in School” initiative and the TONALi cultural project.

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