Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491 & Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42

The very combination of these two concertos was willful, still more Gould’s playing of Mozart, with its extra embellishments and even new counter-melodies in the piano part. What seemed revolutionary at the time has become a matter of course in today’s age of “historical performance practice.” In contrast, the Schoenberg Concerto sounded, in Goulds hands, almost as familiar as Mozart …