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ir Roger Norrington announced recently that he’d made his last recording, and that after 60 years he’s finally figured out how to conduct Mozart. On the evidence of (), that surely happened a, and a that delights and frustrates: superbly cast, but the breathless pace sometimes undermines the characterisation. On the other hand, the Piano Concertos with fortepianist Melvyn Tan have the intimacy of the finest chamber music.

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