CD 1:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major, K40
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F major, K37
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, K39
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, K 41

CD 2:
Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K 175
Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, K238
Three Concertos after J. C. Bach, K 107

CD 3:
Concerto in E flat major for two pianos, KV 365 (316a)
Concerto in F major for three pianos, ‘Lodron Concerto’, KV 242
Concerto in E flat major for two pianos, KV 365 (316a)

CD 4:
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K 415
Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major, K 413
Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K 246 (‘Lützow-Konzert’)

CD 5:
Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, K 271, ‘Jenamy’ [‘Jeunehomme’]
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K 414
Rondo in A major, K 386 - Allegretto

CD 6:
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K 467
Recitative and Rondo:
Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K 505
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major, K 449

CD 7:
Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K 451
Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major, K 450
Rondo in D major, K 382

CD 8:
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K 453
Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K 537, ‘Coronation Concerto’

CD 9:
Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K 456
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K 482

CD 10:
Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K 459
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K 488

CD 11:
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K 466
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K 595

CD 12:
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K 503

‘An ideal mixture of clarity and stylish effervescence’ (International Record Review) and ‘a completely new, crisp “Mozart-feel” for the 21st century’ (Stereoplay) were just a couple of the reactions from reviewers to the fresh, sometimes bracing readings that Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie offered up during their series of Mozart’s piano concertos. Released between 2010 and 2016, individual instalments also received special recommendations from websites and magazines such as Klassik-Heute, Luister, Scherzoand Gramophone, which listed the team’s performances of concertos Nos 18 and 22 among its ‘50 greatest Mozart recordings’.

The discs have now been collected in a boxed set, with the addition of the double and triple concertos that Brautigam recorded in 2006 with Alexei Lubimov and Manfred Huss as his fellow soloists, accompanied by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. The set spans Mozart’s entire career, from the 11-year old budding composer’s so-called ‘pasticcio concertos’ (Nos 1-4) to Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595, which he gave the first performance of less than a year before his death in December 1791. The discs are accompanied by the original booklets, with informative liner notes by the musicologist John Irving, author of several books on Mozart.

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Recordings: 2006-2016; Instrument: Fortepiano by Paul McNulty 1992, after an instrument by Anton Walter c. 1795. Packed in a cardboard box with original booklets.