K.467
EITHER a vitamin nor a secret service. agent, an aeroplane nor a new wonder drug, but the official title of one of Mozart’s 25 piano concertos. That this system of nomenclature is of more than academic interest is the opinion of one of our pianists who once sat down with K.467 nicely prepared, and heard the orchestra around him break out into quite another one of this composer’s four piano concertos in C major. For a second time K.467 has appeared in a U.S.A. programme, the pianist this time (name inaudible) being a pupil of Artur Schnabel, whose own beautiful playing of this work has been recorded. Miss X has not learnt her master’s irritating trick of going for a little gallop in the solo passages, nor his art of making the music ‘sound lovable and the piano the most glorious of instruments-but as to this last, the transmission was perhaps too poor to do her justice. Some station might well collect these three versions of K.467 and let us hear them all, for whether or not it is, as one of Mozart’s biographers suggests, the very model of what a piano concerto should be, it has
a joyous but brilliantly economical perfection which keeps it fresh when many others have grown stale,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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214K.467 New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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