These two early concertos first appeared as part of a five-record set which completed Alfred Brendel's Mozart piano concerto cycle. So, after RO's review in March a short notice must suffice. All the concertos, by the way, are now available on a 13-LP or ten-CD set (4/86).
Individual CDs from the series are to be welcomed but at 43 minutes this one isn't generous measure; you may agree that it would have been more attractive had it included the D major Concert Rondo, K382, which Mozart wrote as an alternative finale when he introduced the K175 Concerto to Vienna in 1782. The performances are all they should be, if here and there a touch super-professional and predictable on the orchestra's part; I had expected more sparkle from Brendel too in the finale of K175, though he makes a lovely thing of the slow movement. The piano appears closer to us in this work than in the other, almost as if we were standing at the treble end of the keyboard; the effect sometimes is to present a rather generalized view of the orchestra and a picture lacking depth. The reverberation has been faded too soon at the end of the D major Concerto's first movement.'