The curved-keyboard piano in Mozart was on a program with Orff's popular Carmina burana.
The curved-keyboard piano in Mozart was on a program with Orff's popular Carmina burana.Knockoffs of it are the reliable soundtrack of video games, and in car commercials it has become marketing shorthand for ferocious power. In the concert hall, the realis a more subtle animal, and yet even there it seems to arrive in bouts of aural cliche.
The other thing the program has going for it is the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose colors lush and vivid made the series of songs of love, lust and drinking all it can be.is paired oddly on this program — repeated this weekend — with one of Mozart’s mature piano concertos, the, which, despite its familiarity, came with an intriguing twist: the local debut of a new piano.
“With any luck I’ll find the right notes,” Emanuel Ax told Friday’s audience. That’s never been a problem for the pianist, who was the perfect musician for this first outing of the instrument. The piano might not have held its own in Tchaikovsky or Brahms, but in the spare texture of Mozart’s judiciously scored concerto it spoke beautifully. It mostly has a refined, gauzy sheen that is a little less penetrating than a Steinway concert grand but still has presence.
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