Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23: II Adagio
An evening pause: Performed in 2020 by the National Orchestra of France with a piano solo by Khatia Buniatishvili and a ballet duet by Jordan Kindell and Verity Jacobson.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
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An unusual form of ballet and a restrained, sensitive performance by Buniatishvili, who can be quite flamboyant. See her video of Rhapsody In Blue [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-IXWaapx4 ]
That is horrible ballet and an insult to Mozart. The music is sad or somber. The weird dancing
does not reflect the mood of the music at all. I don’t know what it reflects.
I know nothing.
Allan and Judd sum it up for me.
Perhaps they know somethig I could never realize.
Beautiful.