W.A. Mozart: Violin Concertos N°5

It is remarkable the fact that the five violin concertos that we know of Mozart were written within a few months. However, each of these works shows an evolution compared to the previous ones. In his Concerto No. 5, popularly known as "Turkish Concerto", Mozart was ahead of his time, and compose a work that is very close to the soloist concert of the nineteenth century. Its greater duration and the degree of technical difficulty are clear elements in this sense, but to this is added the dramatic focus of the work: it is almost an opera disguised as a concert, with the soloist as the protagonist. The intermediate movement -Adagio- is notoriously longer than the slow movements of the previous four concerts, with moving melodies. In the final Rondo, for its part, the basic movement is interrupted by a contrasting section, whose character explains the name of "Turkish Concert" of the work.

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