Veronica Kuijken reviews

The Kuijkens – daughters Marie and Veronica as fortepiano soloists, father Sigiswald as first violin – offer here the three keyboard concertos completed by the 26-year-old Mozart towards the end of 1782. Since he expressly designed them to allow his soloist to be accompanied by either full orchestra or ‘a quattro’, ie only a string quartet, these small-scale versions are not only authentic but, as Kuijken père argues in his booklet essay, especially rewarding in the way they highlight the extreme finesse and responsiveness of Mozart’s string writing.