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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-02-14 05:52
Learning from this thread on Cadenza of clarinet part in K488, I recently bought two CDs of K488. Polini and Boehm with Vienna philhamonic is my favorite. I remember I heard this music when I was a child. The second part is the utmost beauty. Thank you!
p.s. This composition is called one of Mozart masonic musics and he did not give his original score to any publihsers for long time. He loved this so much. I guess.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2002-02-14 07:25
Hiroshi,
We performed it last night for the first time. The final allegro assai is awesomely complex. It went off well, but I don't think I have ever been so exhausted. I have been listening to the versions by Pommier, and Serkin, both of which are superb in their way. I'll take your advice and listen to Polini as well.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-02-14 14:25
K.488 and K.491 (The A major Piano Concero and the C minor Piano Concerto) were written by Mozart within 4 weeks of each other in March of 1786.
This was an extremely difficult period for Mozart, with mounting financial difficulties and growing health concerns.
Rossini once said that Mozart used the piano concerto as his favored vehicle to express his innermost thoughts.
K.488 has also been often compared to the Clarinet Quintet for its dark coloration and similar key. (A major) Mozart's orchestration for K.488 does not use oboes, trumpet or timpani. (a chamber music feeling?)
He does however in K.488 use the previously avoided key of F# minor in the Andante - the only time in all of Mozart's works where F# minor is used exclusively for an entire movement.
One wonders if he was trying to convey his impending mortality...GBK
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-02-14 23:30
Hiroshi - have you listened to Bilson with the English Baroque Soloists? Their interpretations are "authentic" - at least it's audacious to even think we know how classical players performed - nevertheless, they are delightful and I adore them much more than "modern" interpretations - IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-02-15 02:05
Diz - I look into my favorite HMV store. Thank you.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2002-02-15 08:31
The slow movement in K.488 is marked "Adagio", not the usual Andante or Larghetto. It's the only Piano Concerto (besides K.242 ten years before) where he uses such a slow marking to emphasize the seriousness of the work.
I can also recommend the recording by Jos van Immerseel/"Anima Eterna". (Period instruments)
Alphie
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-02-15 12:47
The Kalmus edition unfortunately still marks the second movement as "Andante".
Many of these old scores are still in circulation...GBK
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