Piano The Messenger: Helene Grimaud in Mozart and Silvestrov One of the most forward-thinking of musicians around today, Hélène Grimaud's releases on the Yellow Label are never less than stimulating. Think of her meditation on memory in her album of that name (which, like this new offering, included some Silvestrov). The juxtaposition of Mozart with the music of Valentin
Mozart Mozart and Oratorio: Betulia Liberata How many oratorios did you write when you were 15? Well, Mozart wrote this one, his first, in 1771. Betulia Liberata, K 118, tells the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes. It was commissioned while Mozart was on tour in Italy, chaperoned by his father, Leopold, in 1771; Mozart wrote
Mozart The Mozart Concerto you really should know ... Picking a Mozart Piano Concerto to feature isn't an easy task, especially if one is out to explore, so most of Nos. 20-27 are off-limits. I was bowled over with the Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat, K 449 many years ago, when a then-young Maurizio Pollini took it
