Mozart Concertos
ECENTLY I commented on 4YC’s series of Haydn quartets, and in the past I have enjoyed such other series as the Beethoven violin and pianoforte sonatas; for sheer delight, however, these have been eclipsed by the just completed series of Mozart pianoforte concertos with their marvellous tunes and variety unsurpassed by anything in music. Who could want anything more lovely than the slow movement of K.488, more dramatic than the opening movements of K.466 (D Minor) or K.491 (C Minor)? Comment on this series could easily turn into a catalogue of superlatives. Perhaps I should confine myself to the pleasure of differing with occasional performers, for whom should I choose to perfotfm all the Mozart Concertos? Not Schnabel-I can’t like his, to me, excessive slowness in the slow movement of K.595-nor Bruno Walter, since I am not sure about his K.466; perhaps Fischer or Gieseking-there is a lovely performance by the latter in seth On the whole, however, I think I should choose Kathleen Long, who, with her clarity and brilliance and the knowledge to allow the woodwind to be heard in the.right places, is perhaps the perfect Mozart pianist, and her performance in K.450 and K.491 incomparable. It is to be hoped that 4YC will let us have these Mozart concertos again before very long.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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219Mozart Concertos New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 8
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