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1 day ago · Mozart’s 27th and final Piano Concerto was composed in early 1791 and was perhaps his most innovative concerto he would write: in some passages of the piece, there are glimpses of a kind of music that no other composer, until Beethoven, would write for another 15 years. It’s our Evening Masterwork tonight at 7 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.
6 days ago · The disc also includes Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos and Orchestra, performed uniquely on three different types of keyboard instruments - by Robert Levin (tangent piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano), and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord). Terrific resonance and tonality, with a dazzling interaction between the three instrumentalists.
2 days ago · [9] One exception is his Piano Concerto no. 11, in F major, K 413/387a (1782/83) with the dance-like title Tempo di Menuetto for the final movement. [10] Hummel also arranged these symphonies for piano quartet. See Zaslaw, Mozart’s symphonies, 498. While Maelzel’s metronome was not invented in Mozart’s time, there are many primary sources ...
3 days ago · The concerto element, in strict fact, was Johann Christian Bach as recycled by Mozart: three piano sonatas by the London Bach turned into concerto-style pieces by the Austrian teenage virtuoso and finally given Köchel number 107 but not included in the conventional total of his 27 piano concerti.
2 days ago · On May 18, I was fortunate to attend the Totally Mozart concert with the Chamber Music Society. This was the program: Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, K. 304 (1778) Quartet in F major for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 370 (1781) Trio in G major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, K. 564 (1788)
4 days ago · There are many reasons why Beethoven’s triple concerto usually fails on record. Most are to do with ego.
Here is my practise of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto Op.30 pages 23-33. It's from the Cadenza to the end of the first movement. As usual, there's lots of mistakes and some problems with my phrasing so please ignore the quality! I will be starting work on the second movement tomorrow so I'm really excited. Learing the Cadenza was exhausting!
