Jim Paterson ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Jeffrey Hall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>I have recently been playing what is arguably the best piece of music that
>>I have ever heard: Mozart's piano concerto 24 by Moravec/Marriner ...
>
>I have to agree with Jeffrey that this is THE best Mozart piano concerto
>and one of the finest written.  It is just so succinct and to the point.
>(And there is something about the key of C minor and pianos - look at
>Beethoven's piano concerto in the same key.)

Oddly, and despite the obvious resemblance between the opening theme of
K491 and Beethoven's Op.37, he seems to have been more inspired by K466,
for which he composed cadenzas.  And wasn't it K466 of which he said to
Ries something along the lines of "you and I will never be able to do
anything like that"?

Deryk Barker
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