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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: I. Allegro (Cadenza by Barenboim) by Daniel Barenboim album cover

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: I. Allegro (Cadenza by Barenboim)

by Daniel Barenboim

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About "Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491: I. Allegro (Cadenza by Barenboim)" by Daniel Barenboim

C minor's opening is a clenched fist: Barenboim's piano broods over a restless, chromatic orchestra. The tension is architectural, not theatrical—every phrase weighted with a quiet, stubborn gravity. This is Mozart at his most severe, a symphony of shadows where even the cadenza feels like a hard-won argument.