Mozart Explored: Piano Concerto No.26 in D

In the mid-1780s, Mozart’s Piano Concertos were the talk of the town. For two glorious years, concerts advertising his brand-new piano works would sell out, with the great and good of Vienna flocking to the doors. But by the third year, audience numbers dwindled as popular opinion hesitated over Mozart’s ever more daring works. Our 2024 series covers Mozart’s final five Piano Concertos, composed during the increasingly tumultuous period of his li...