Grand Tour of the National

The silence that follows Mozart is still Mozart's, they say; but what about the silence that precedes Mozart? The Estonian Arvo Pärt provides a credible answer, he who, between the hypnotic passages and bell-like sounds that punctuate his music, has placed silence at the heart of it. Thus, after his Fratres ("Brothers"), Francesco Piemontesi distils Mozartian nectar in the energetic Twenty-fifth Concerto , before the entire orchestra intones and...