Brautigam:Kolner Akademie - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17/ 26

Ronald Brautigam returns with the third instalment in his series of Mozart's piano concertos and is joined again by Die K�lner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens.The present disc includes Piano Concerto No.26 in D major, K 537, nicknamed the 'Coronation Concerto'. Although the title page stated the work was 'performed by the composer at Frankfurt-am-Main on the occasion of the Coronation of Emperor Leopold II', the concert took place a week after the actual coronation, and was not part of the official festivities. It is here preceded by Piano Concerto No.17 in G major, K 453, one of the rare concertos that Mozart composed with another soloist than himself in mind - in this case his student Barbara Ployer.