"I've always been driven by a strong ideal in Mozart that the type of rhetorical landscape that he has, or that he's trying to emulate in his keyboard music specifically, is the landscape of theatre and of opera. And I don't mean any kind of hackneyed references to Figaro and Susanna being characters in a Mozart piano sonata, but the sense in which Mozart's landscape of gestures is paying homage to the type of naturally mercurial timing that you see in any good performance of an opera."
Fortepianist and BEMF regular Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Friday, Feb 21, at NEC's Jordan Hall, as part of the BEMF Concert Series, and Sunday, 4pm, down the other end of the Mass Pike at EMPAC.
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