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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
in G minor, K466
Mahler: Symphony No.1 (Der Titan)
in D Major
Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
4/5
CONDUCTING Mozart’s K466 from the piano and leading the Philharmonia Orchestra through the gargantuan peaks and troughs of Mahler’s first symphony in the same programme requires a combination of several qualities — talent, arrogance, confidence, energy and experience among them.
While age is no barrier to the first and third, and might well be a positive asset when it comes to the second, a musician of just 26 surely hasn’t been alive long enough to acquire the last.
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