Mozart In-Between, album review - Telegraph Symphony No 23; Piano Concerto No 9, 'Jeunehomme"; other works. David Greilsammer (piano & cond), L'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève Being a David Greilsammer disc, this is no ordinary recording of Mozart. Although he has previously made two CDs of Mozart piano concertos with his Suedama Ensemble for the Naïve label, Greilsammer's real penchant is for devising programmes that challenge our attitudes towards listening to music, finding links in the unexpected and contrasts in the seemingly similar. Hence another Naïve CD of 2007 - Fantaisie Fantasme (V5081) - that pitted Mozart against John Cage, Schoenberg against Brahms, Bach against György Ligeti. The title of this new disc, Mozart In-Between, signifies Greilsammer's urge to illuminate the conflicting elements in Mozart's music, "the opposing forces of light and darkness, the human and the divine, childhood and adulthood, conservatism and innovation," and so on. These might not be entirely new concepts in appreciating Mozart's art, but they do provide Greilsammer with the incentive to produce sizzling performances of two comparatively early works - the D major Symphony K181 and the E flat Jeunehomme Piano Concerto K271 - and to direct extracts from the little-known incidental music to Thamos, König in Ägypten that, in the power and drive of the playing, show the Mozart of Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte in the making. In between there is a new work called In-Between by the Swiss composer Denis Schuler, an effective counterbalance to the Mozart in its colour and animation, and the disc ends with the countertenor Lawrence Zazzo singing the defiant (originally castrato) aria Venga pur, minacci e frema from the opera Mitridate, re di Ponto. With the Geneva Chamber Orchestra on fine form, this disc amounts to more than the sum of its parts, although Greilsammer's conducting and piano playing generate a freshness and imagination that allow each of the works to be enjoyed as a dynamic interpretation in its own right.