Mozart’s two piano quartets are both masterpieces and among the greatest chamber works in the repertoire. The Rondo concertante is arranged from the last movement of the piano sonata K333, which unusually has a cadenza passage, which lead pianist Dejan Lazić to make a version for piano and orchestra.

On this recording a version for piano quintet brings the music in another fresh guise and you’d be hard pressed to know it wasn’t by Mozart himself.

Lazić is joined by friends he has performed with for years but this is actually his first recording of chamber music in a long recording career. The result is joyful, intimate music making, of the sort only musicians who have a lifetime of performing together can achieve. (Onyx Classics)

WATCH HERE THE MAKING-OF VIDEO (featuring behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, insights into the rehearsals, recording sessions, and the live concert atmosphere on site):

“TIME FOR MOZART” — a film by Lin Gothoni, 2020 (German with English subtitles)

Dejan Lazić / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra / Gordan Nikolić

Beethoven’s transcription for piano of his violin concerto was made at the request of London based Muzio Clementi. Beethoven admired Clementi as a pianist and found his business as a publisher of use. Johann Baptiste Cramer was a composer and pianist also admired and respected by Beethoven and he settled in London . Both these composers played significant roles in the development of the piano, something Beethoven followed keenly. This fascinating album contains Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in D op61a, Clementi’s Piano Sonata in B minor op40/2, and Cramer’s Piano Sonata in E op62 ‘Le retour à Londres’.

Dejan Lazić’s fantastic Liszt recital has been released in April 2017

Dejan Lazić; on this, his first album for ONYX, pays tribute to a composer and his legacy as a piano virtuoso, organist, improviser, arranger, conductor, teacher, author, philanthropist and traveller.

Liszt lived life to the full, and this recital captures that love of life, his genius as a pianist and composer, a traveller with a restless and curious mind. Liszt’s respect for the music of other composers is to be found in his arrangements for piano of orchestral, operatic and other vocal works. From Wagner’s operas to Schubert Lieder via Beethoven Symphonies, his deep love for the music is apparent and such arrangements gave this music a wider audience in both the salons and domestic settings that lives on today.

“Embarking on a recording project like this obviously required a substantial amount of preparation time. But once the date has come it was of a tremendous importance to capture and to honour the spontaneity of Liszt’s versatile, eclectic, and revolutionary genius”, writes Dejan in his introduction to the recital, captured at a live performance at Hohenhems, and one further day in studio conditions.

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Liaisons – Vol. 3

C.Ph.E. Bach: Piano Sonatas in D minor & E-flat major;
Fantasia in D major; La Böhmer (Murky)
B. Britten: Holiday Diary Suite; Nocturne; 5 Waltzes

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, op. 58
with Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti

(CCS SA 30511)

Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, No. 2 (‘Moonlight’)

Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, op. 110

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, op. 18
with London Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko

(CCS SA 26308)

Moderato; Allegro
Adagio sostenuto
Allegro scherzando

Moments Musicaux, op. 16
Andantino
Allegretto
Andante Cantabile
Presto
Adagio sostenuto
Maestoso

Liaisons Vol. 2
(CCS SA 27609)

Robert Schumann: Papillons, Op. 2
Robert Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82

Johannes Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 118

Liaisons Vol. 1

(CCS SA 23407)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757)

Sonata in C major, K. 420 – Allegro
Sonata in f minor, K. 58 – Fuga
Sonata in F major, K. 82 – Allegro
Sonata in D major, K. 491 – Allegro
Sonata in D major, K. 430 – Non presto ma a tempo di ballo
Sonata in C major, K. 159 – Allegro
Sonata in d minor, K. 9 – Allegro
Sonata in F major, K. 17 – Presto
Sonata in a minor, K. 3 – Presto
Sonata in E major, K. 380 – Andante comodo
Sonata in E major, K. 135 – Allegro

Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)

3 Rondos on Slovak Folktunes, Sz 84, BB 92;
7 Sketches, Sz 44, BB 54 (op. 9b);
Funeral March from symphonic poem ‘Kossuth’, Sz 21, BB 31 (arranged for piano by the composer);
6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (from ‘Microcosmos’ – Vol. 6), Sz 107, BB 105

Sonata in B-flat major, D 960 (op. posth.)
‘Moments Musicals’, D 780 (op. 94)

 (CCS SA 20705)

Haydn: English Sonatas
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2

(CCS SA 19703)

Haydn: Piano Sonata in C major, Hob. XVII:50
Haydn: Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVII:52
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, op. 19

Piano Works: 1899 – 1917
(CCS 17598)

Prélude (1913)
Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn (1909)

Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
Sonatine (1903-05)
Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-1917)

Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911)

À la manière de Chabrier (1913)
À la manière de Borodine (1913)
Prelude (Postlude, 1913) – Version 2: d´un rythme libre

Retrospection
(CCS 15998)

Sonata in B-flat Minor, op. 35 (‘with the funeral march’);

2 Nocturnes, op. 32;
Valse in C-sharp Minor, op. 64 no. 2;
Valse in D-flat Major, op. 64 no. 1;
Valse in G-flat Major, op. 70 no. 1;
Ballade in G minor, op. 23;
Grande Polonaise brillante précédée d’un Andante Spianato

in E-flat Major, op. 22;

Valse in A-flat Major, op. 69 no. 1;
Grande Valse brillante in E-flat Major, op. 18;
Valse in E Minor, op. posth.

Retrospection
(CCS 13398)

Gigue in G major, K. 574;
Fantasia and Fugue in C major, K. 394 (383a);
Sonata in C major, K. 330 (330h);
Minuet in D major, K. 355 (594a; KV6:576b);
Sonata in G major, K. 283 (189h);
Fantasia in d minor, K. 397 (385g);
9 Variations in D major, after a Minuet of Jean-Pierre Duport, K. 573;
Minuet in G major, K. 1 (KV6:1e);
Minuet in C major, K. 1, Trio (KV 6:1f)

W. A. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622

W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 449

Dejan Lazić, clarinet & piano

Zagreb Soloists

(recording: 1991)