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 ...

If you like easy-listening Mozart or have an affection for performances that are light or pretty in manner, then Francesco Piemontesi’s new coupling of the Concertos in C, K503, and in D, K537, is not ...

Mozart’s piano concertos stand at the pinnacle of the Classical repertoire. They reach out to embrace and delight their listeners even as they challenge and enthrall the performers with their ...

It is a score draw at the moment in the match between traditional and period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s piano concertos. Mitsuko Uchida falls in the former camp and the last in her recent ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 Mozart Orchestra Claudio Abbado, Conductor Martha Argerich, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 25 Martha Argerich, ...

The Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, a one-time pupil of Alfred Brendel, has become a Mozartian to cherish. It’s hard to fault his sense of line, structure and deft approach to detail in these two ...

Watch pianist Francesco Piemontesi, in his NY Phil debut, perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, on January 31, 2024 in the video! Francesco Piemontesi marked his NY ...

The long years of collaboration between the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Charles Mackerras in Mozart have clearly spawned a vital tradition. In two of the late piano concertos young Italian pianist ...

Mozart's concertos are still some of the most widely performed - horn concertos, clarinet concertos, violin concertos, piano concertos... They're all as popular as they ever were, but why? Showing off ...

The Music These two works come from that marvellous period in the mid-1780s when Mozart was composing one superb piano concerto after another. As so often, he writes ravishing tunes for the woodwind, ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 Jeremy Denk, Conductor, Piano Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra The first thing you notice at the outset of the C major Concerto (K503) – in fact at the opening of ...