Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 is 240 years old, and much about its creation remains a mystery, but pianist Garrick Ohlsson has no doubt that the 21-year-old composer was inspired by the same thing ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Uchida’s third Mozart disc as soloist/director with the Cleveland Orchestra is every bit as satisfying as its ...
Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (EMI 557 8032) Written in January 1777, as he was turning 21, Mozart's ninth concerto (the 'Jeunehomme') is generally regarded as his first mature ...
Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered by many to be the greatest composer ever. And his 27 piano concertos may be his finest work. But Mozart had a formula for the 27 and he used it over and over ...
Orchestra da Camera di Mantova/Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDA 67840**** Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt is beginning a new journey, this one through Mozart’s piano concertos. The first instalment ...