Album: Gidon Kremerm, Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos, Nonesuch

Two decades on from his Deutsche Grammophon recordings, the Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer revisits Mozart's Violin Concertos, this time in the company of his own group, Kremerata Baltica.

It's almost too much of a good thing, an impression perhaps deriving from the fact that the last four of the five concertos were all written in the same year, 1775, when the composer was 19, and share a certain air of prolific juvenile confidence, which Kremer conveys through deft, cheeky ornamentation. More youthful still is the often overlooked first concerto which is bursting with melodic invention in the opening and closing passages and the central Adagio.

Download this: 'Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major'