Four hours of Mozart that'll make you rethink every note you've ever heard.
The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart's last 8 piano concertos. The music of Mozart has quite literally been an essential driving force of Daniel Barenboim’s entire life. It remains central to his performing career both as a pianist and as a conductor. These illuminating performances of Mozart’s last eight great piano concertos admirably demonstrate Barenboim’s dictum that even when a true musician has already performed a familiar work hundreds of times, he or she ‘never accepts that the next note will be played the same way as it was played before.
Direction
Ponnelle's visual treatment lets the music breathe without distraction.
Acting
Barenboim conducting himself — ego and humility in constant negotiation.
Director
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barenboim recorded these at 46, already a half-century into his Mozart relationship that began at age 5.
The 255-minute runtime mirrors Mozart's own marathon composition periods for these final concertos written in his last years.
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