Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) - Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 (1786) I. Allegro [0:00] II. Larghetto [13:25] III. Allegretto [22:00] (Cadenzas: Murray Perahia) Murray Perahia, piano English Chamber Orchestra (1975) The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is cast in three movements and typically lasts around 30 minutes. “During the early part of 1786 Mozart was busily engaged in the process of completing his opera Le nozze di Figaro, which received its premiere at the National Court Theater in Vienna on May 1. Lack of documentation for the winter and spring months of that year means that we do not know if he repeated the series of Lenten subscription concerts he had mounted the two previous years, but they did witness the completion of two new piano concertos, a genre that from 1784 to 1786 can normally be related to such concert series. One of these, No. 23 in A, K. 488, is a work now known to have been started two yea