The early Mozart keyboard concertos, which date from Mozart's mid-teens, were written for harpsichord and orchestra. For years they were often performed in a rather delicate way, whether a harpsichord, fortepiano, or modern grand was used. The first of the three concertos recorded here, however, stands up to a fuller approach. The Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K. 175, is a striking work that, perhaps more than any other work of Mozart's adolescence, prefigures further developments with the large scope marked out by the ...
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The early Mozart keyboard concertos, which date from Mozart's mid-teens, were written for harpsichord and orchestra. For years they were often performed in a rather delicate way, whether a harpsichord, fortepiano, or modern grand was used. The first of the three concertos recorded here, however, stands up to a fuller approach. The Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major, K. 175, is a striking work that, perhaps more than any other work of Mozart's adolescence, prefigures further developments with the large scope marked out by the orchestration in its first movement and the ingenious mixture of polyphony and playfulness in the finale, a mixture that Mozart, 10 years later in Vienna, judged too advanced for Viennese audiences and replaced with a simpler substitute. If you reject historical-instrument approaches in Mozart's music on the grounds that Mozart would have wanted a modern piano if he could have heard it, you could hardly come up with a work better suited to the argument than this concerto, with its...
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