Piano Concertos nos. 20 & 21

Album by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Patrick Cohen & Ensemble baroque de Limoges & Christophe Coin

Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 21 are a pair of piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed and first performed in 1785. They exemplify Mozart's mature Classical concerto style, combining clear, balanced orchestral textures with expressive, virtuosic piano writing—with No. 20 in a darker minor-key mode and No. 21 featuring more lyrical, poised melodies—and they occupy a central place in his concerto output, helping to shape the piano concerto genre in the late eighteenth century.