Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488

Brief AI Commentary

This concerto joins effortless melodic beauty to subtle emotional depth. The bright outer movements frame an Adagio of striking inwardness, and Mozart gives the woodwinds an especially independent, conversational role.

Pollini’s clean articulation and Böhm’s measured accompaniment emphasize proportion rather than sentimentality. Their restraint allows the score’s changes of mood—from sociable grace to solitude and back—to emerge naturally.