Piano Concerto 23, Symphony No. 40 - Don Giovanni Overture

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Le Concert de La Loge & Julien Chauvin (Dir) meet up with one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, Staier, who is a leading interpreter of the Mozart concertos. He presents us with his vision of the Piano Concerto no.23 and its famous Adagio, 'one of the most heart-rending slow movements ever written by Mozart [...] Performers often tend to take it too slowly, but we spontaneously agreed on a slightly faster tempo, which respects the basic pulse of siciliana rhythm [...]'