🎵
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza by Barenboim) by Daniel Barenboim album cover

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza by Barenboim)

by Daniel Barenboim

About This Song

About "Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso (Cadenza by Barenboim)" by Daniel Barenboim

Barenboim's cadenza in K. 503 opens with majestic C-major pomp, the piano striding like a monarch through a marble hall. Yet the Allegro maestoso's grandeur is undercut by harmonic twists—triumph shadowed by an unsettling awareness of scale.