Title: Loose Change from Mozart
Product review: Relatively speaking, this disc contains Mozart's most inconsequential piano concertos from his decade in Vienna: K 413 in F and K 451 in D Major. In a letter to his father and sister, Mozart ranked the latter with the contemporaneous B Flat Concerto (K 450) but posterity has not shared his evaluation. The best thing about the F Major - an unambitious work - is the graceful finale with its pianissimo close. Yes indeed: the Ancien Regime stands firm with nary a cloud on the horizon.Again, I once possessed these recordings on LP and made the hyper-jump to CD. Brendel plays with a narrow percussive tone that is not unsuitable. He is stylishly accompanied by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Field. The recording is somewhat metallic with a hint of digital glare. This disc is not going to change your life. If however you are a latterday Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and besieged by mechanisation and barbarism on all sides, it will becalm you with civilisation.
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