Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 21

Awards 10/10 CD review / ƒƒƒƒ Télérama / Disque du Jour

Concerto 20 d minor KV 466 Completed: Vienna, 10 February 1785 Mozart is 29 years old 1785, 16 February, Leopold to Nannerl ... on that Friday (10 II 85) in the evening, we went out to his first subscription concert, where there was a great crowd of personages of high degree. Every person pays a 'Souvrin d'or' or 3 Ducats for the 6 Lenten concerts. It is at the Mehlgrube, he [Mozart] pays only a half 'Souvrin d'or' for each time he uses the hall. The concerto was incomparable, the orchestra excellent, in addition to the symphonies a woman from the theatre sang 2 arias. Then there was a new, excellent concerto by Wolfgang which the copyist was still finishing when we arrived, and your brother didn't even have time to play through the Rondeau, because he had to supervise the copying