As this concerto begins, we in the audience scarcely have time to adjust to our surroundings before Mozart tosses us headlong with his music into the full current of human emotional possibility, yet he manages the swift transitions with such beauty that we do not think to resist.
Describing Mozart’s Concerto in G, performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Imogen Cooper, who also played piano, Lyanda Lynn Haupt wrote,
“As this concerto begins, we in the audience scarcely have time to adjust to our surroundings before Mozart tosses us headlong with his music into the full current of human emotional possibility, yet he manages the swift transitions with such beauty that we do not think to resist.”
