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...concert concluded with Mozart's D-minor Piano Concerto, K. 466, surely his finest contribution to the medium. This is a work of tragic import, until the last pages of the rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered...
...piano ("my first love") and to Mozart. She sighs: "Mozart was my first nature-but Bach, too. Oh, how can I combine these two gentlemen?" In making the recordings, which include some of Mozart's loveliest and most deceptively simple piano music (Sonatas, K.333, 311, 283, 282, Rondo in A Minor, K.511, Country Dances, K.606) she insisted on the intimate atmosphere of her house, which would approximate the acoustics of the salons in which Mozart himself played. After a lifetime of immersion in 18th century keyboard techniques, she brought to her performance a startling freedom-as if she owned...
...Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 (Guiomar Novaès, piano; Vox). One of the remarkable compositions of Mozart's last years, this rondo spaces out a pretty, parlor-music theme with unusual interludes of poignance and even tragedy. Brazilian Pianist Novaès plays it (and three sonatas) with warmth and strength...
...Other such unusual compositions: Vaughan Williams' own Romance jor Harmonica and Orchestra, Serse Koussevitzky's Concerto for Double Bass, Jaromir Weinberger's Concerto for timpani, with four trumpets and four trombones, Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello...
...recital itself, said Biggs, was "a sort of compromise program: Handel, because after all he's buried here, Bach, then Daquin and Soler [both 18th century] for the traditionalists, Hindemith, Jehan Alain, a young French composer who was killed in World War II, finishing up with the Rondo from the Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie...