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LEIF OVE ANDSNES

Mozart Momentum: Piano Concertos K466, K467 & K482; Fantasia in C minor K475; Piano Quartet in G minor K478; Masonic Funeral Music K477. Mahler Chamber Orchestra and various soloists

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The first aerial crossing of the English Channel; the Marquis de Sade scribbling in the Bastille; and the famous ‘necklace affair’ hastening on the French Revolution. The world was changing rapidly in 1785, and – as Leif Ove Andsnes demonstrates with energy and panache – nowhere less so than in the output of the 29-year-old Mozart. Could Wolfgang

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