Jeunehomme - Mozart, Haydn

Alexandre Tharaud returns with an album of music by Haydn and Mozart composed between 1777 and 1786, including the latter's masterpiece the Piano Concerto No.9 Jeunehomme widely regarded as one of his greatest contributions to the genre.

The piano works are elegantly woven together: while Tharaud performs Mozart’s cadenzas in the Piano Concerto No.9, the pianist has written his own for the Rondo in A – employing themes from Jeunehomme – as well as for the Haydn concerto in which he uses motifs from Mozart’s famous Rondo Alla Turca to give a truly Eastern European flavour to the work that seizes on the spirit of its final-movement Rondo all'Ungherese. The album sees Tharaud reunite with old friends: the award-winning French-Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy under the baton of their music director Bernard Labadie, and the outstanding mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Mozart’s concert aria Ch'io mi scordi di te?.