London Mozart Players
Mozart Piano Concerto no.12 (arr. harp)
Mozart Symphony no.41 (Jupiter)
Gerard Korsten conductor
The sounds of the concert harp and light-toned all-wood piano were sometimes so close in eighteenth-century Vienna that even as late as 1796 Beethoven could write in a letter "I hope the time will come when the harp and the pianoforte will be treated as two entirely different instruments."
Mozart's concerto, written fourteen years earlier, works beautifully in this arrangement for harp, with its urbane first movement, gravely beautiful slow movement and perky finale.
It is framed by two symphonies: Haydn's typically inventive work, graced with many touches of humour, and Mozart's final masterpiece, which sums up his achievement in the form in four movements, ending with a tour de force of ingenious counterpoint.
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