Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 (1785)
Nikolai Lugansky, Soloist
Alexander Rudin conducting the Musica Viva Orchestra, 2012
Moscow Philharmonic Society
I.
[0:00] Orchestral Expos. (Allegro)
[2:17] Solo Expos.
[5:39] Quasi-development
[7:31] Recap.
[10:47] Cadenza
[13:10] Coda
II. Romance (Rondo. B♭major)
[14:26] A
[16:17] B
[17:38] A’
[18:22] C (G minor)
[21:06] A’’
III. Rondo
[23:18] A/B (Allegro assai)
[25:21] C
[25:46] A’/B’
[27:44] C’
[28:23] Cadenza
[29:44] Coda (D major)
"Devotees of the great Romantic piano concertos tended to hear Mozart’s examples, with their singing melodies and perfection of form, as beautiful rather than great. One exception was his No. 20, Beethoven’s favorite, and the one Mozart piano concerto he always kept in his own performance repertory. Today, of course, we have adopted a longer view, understanding that succeeding generations have reconsidered Mozart in stages, the way most listeners discover him. First we hear the divine child with his uncanny knack for divinely beautiful melodies; then the impossibly sophisticated technician, who made complexity sound simple and pushed musical forms to new levels; then the profound, sublime Mozart of compositions such as the Piano Concerto No. 20.”
- Utah Symphony Orchestra