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To give a piano concert of Mozart can feel like walking a tightrope with no clothes on. Without experience of the latter, of course, I’m speculating, but I was reminded of the exposure Mozart inflicts on his performers recently as I watched a recording of pianist Menahem Pressler from a few years ago. He was playing piano concerto no. 23 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, a piece whose quintessentially classical form — the thin lines of music, relentless scales, lack of excess — leaves the…
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