Mozart, Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K. 488 (Mozartwoche 1998)

The Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg was originally founded in 1841 as the "Dom-Musik-Verein und Mozarteum." Since 1958 it has been Salzburg's municipal and state orchestra, and concertizes regularly at both the Salzburg Festival and the Mozartwoche. The principal conductor of the orchestra as well as the conductor of this recording is the Dutch maestro Hubert Soudant. He led the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de France in Paris from 1981 to 1983 and the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra in Holland from 1983 to 1986. The pianist Till Fellner was born in Vienna and studied with Alfred Brendel and Oleg Maisenberg, among others.