IX. MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus: Concerto #20 in D Minor for Piano, K. 466

IX. MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)

Concerto #20 in D Minor for Piano, K. 466 (1785)
1. Allegro
2. Romanze
3. Rondo, Allegro assai
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and cond.
Camerata Salzburg
(34:09)

Our memories of our childhood are often quite formative. When I first heard this magnificent piano concerto, I was very young and thereafter never seemed satisfied with recordings other than:

Richter/Warsaw

Perhaps I've grown more open to new things in my old age. This recording with Uchida -- one of the greatest Mozart interpreters of our times -- in which she both plays and conducts, is filled with incredible sublimity and delicate beauty.

The hushed, mysterious, syncopated introduction: