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Legend
Now that Mendelssohn has entered the picture, I should point out that my first listening of Perahia was a recording in 1977, the Mendelssohn concertos with
Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the same great conductor who rediscovered Yeol Eum Son of South Korea in 2016 and made
his last ever recording with her, also with ASMF, and her first major label album. The music world is a small place.
Here is some very beautiful Mendelssohn from Yeol Eum Son, a live concert of the Mendelssohn 1st concerto, brilliantly and beautifully played with the
Slovenia Symphony last year. My own piano professor was/is Slovenian, and I learned this concerto with her in the early 1970's.
Hope this link works, yes, it does. The encore is another Mendelssohn "Song Without Words".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00070rq
I don't care for any of Felix's concertos. Much of his oeuvre like Wolfgang's strikes me as a tad too polished and polite - pleasant to listen to but little more. Dig his piano trios much more (which I'm sure you've forgotten, cuz you never listen to anyone on anything except when it serves your narrow interests).
Speaking of which/whom....
It didn't take long, here is the the most gracious and sparkling Mozart player of them all from Tuesday at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms.
I guarantee you that if I fed you some random Mozart performance by a nameless yet talented conservatory student and asked you to guess its origin you'd fail the test just about every single time. Wolfgang is one of those composers whose music more or less plays itself as long as you let it, and the fact that you pretend to recognize "the most gracious and sparkling Mozart player of them all" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary shows how much full of crap you really are.
Of course his unfinished Requiem is one of the (stupendous) exceptions to this rule, one that allows for the widest array of approaches and interpretations. Here's one of the more convincing ones: