Under the direction of Johan Hock from Queen's College Chambers
Lecture Hall, Birmingham
The Birmingham Philharmonic
String Orchestra
Leader, Norris Stanley
Conductor, Johan Hock Joan Davies (pianoforte)
Mozart's magnificent A major Concerto was completed in Vienna on March 2, 1786, just three weeks before the equally remarkable C minor. In December of the same year came a third great piano concerto (in C major, K.503), and Sir Donald Tovey has pointed out that this trio of concertos is comparable with the trio of great symphonies written two years later.
' The pathos of the C minor
Concerto is even more profound than that of the G minor Symphony', he says, while the C major ' fully equals the " Jupiter " Symphony in triumphant majesty, and even in contrapuntal display '. As for the A major, it is, ' with the additional element of pathos in its remarkable slow movement, as eminently a study in euphony as is the E flat Symphony '.