Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 (1785) I. Allegro [0:00] II. Andante [14:01] III. Allegro vivace assai [21:00] (Cadenzas: Murray Perahia - Mvt. 1, Rudolf Serkin - Mvt. 3) Murray Perahia, piano English Chamber Orchestra (1976) Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is in three movements and typically lasts around 28 minutes. “In keeping with the Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466, the C Major Concerto was composed for the series of Lenten subscription concerts given by Mozart in 1765. This was an extraordinarily busy and successful period of Mozart’s life, as we can gauge from a series of letters sent by his father Leopold to Mozart’s sister Nannerl, now married and living with her husband in St. Gilgen. ’Every day there are concerts; and the whole time is given up to teaching, music, composing and so is impossible for me to describe the rush and the bustle.’ Leopold