Album Description"Exemplary articulation, the subtlest melodic inflection, a wide but never self-indulgent tonal palette, a keen and elegant gift for characterisation--all are present and correct here, beautifully matched by orchestra and conductor." - BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE The piano concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) stand as a lonely and magnificent peak in the history of music. Every one of his concertos is unique, a foray on unexplored musical territory pressing forward to new understandings of form and content. The Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra was founded in 1946 by former members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague and musicians from Karlsbad and Silesia who had been stranded in Bamberg in the wake of the floods of World War II refugees. Matthias Kirschnereit is one of the leading German pianists of his generation. His international solo career has taken him to five continents and he has toured the U.S.