Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was at the height of his powers when he played these two Mozart concertos at the Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany in July 1956. The playing is really quite extraordinary – ...
The 17-year-old Canadian of Polish parentage signed up to Deutsche Grammophon at 15 and even the most credulous might doubt if a pianist this young is ready to record Mozart concertos. All misgivings ...
Given the chronological separation of Mozart's final piano concertos, K. 537 and K. 595, from his extraordinary sequence of 15 piano concertos of 1782-86 (K. 413-503), it is no surprise that critics ...
Maria João Pires playing the piece in the second of her two concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. Although her tone was creamy and her attack delicate, Pires gave the overall impression of ...
In general, I’m not a happy clappy person. I’ll applaud a great performance, for sure, but I tend to be more polite with my appreciation instead of exuberant. It’s a personal flaw, but I’m working on ...
Yuja Wang expertly performs Mozart's restless, gloomy and dramatic Piano Concerto in D minor at the third edition of the Riga Jurmala Music Festival. World-renowned piano virtuoso Yuja Wang shines at ...
In a musical world studded with fine Mozartians, no one is rated more highly than Mitsuko Uchida. Born in a seaside town near Tokyo, she was 12 when her diplomat father was posted to Vienna. There, ...
That was the Dallas Chamber Symphony ’s concert Tuesday night, at Moody Performance Hall. And the assets started with the ...