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Very, very nice!    I didn't hear any particular unevenness, and I'm not sure what pianistimo meant by "pairing notes".  Anyway, I thought you did a really fine rendition of this--light, well-articulated, with drama in the right places and wit in others.  Just what Mozart would have ordered.

Teresa

Thanks Teresa_b,
   We insecure people love compliments.
   Yeah, I don't know about the uneveness either, and--- I'm not playing for any "jury", either real or imaginary. I'm just playing for myself and whoever wants to hop on the wagon.
   Every composers' body of work is a world unto itself and it needs to be comprehended and there are boundaries that if you go beyond, the music could loose it's meaning and integrity. But within those boundaries there is plenty of room for "liberties" and I certainly don't think that playing the piece on the "romantic" side (including the opening), especially a piece named "fantasy", is an assault to some supposedly "divine" set of rules delivered by some academic "jury." If there wasn't that "room" for creativity, how could you call classical music interpretation an "art" and what would distinguish one interpreter from another?
  I find this Mozart piece to be the pentultimate test of musicianship. So deceptively simple, but on such a high conceptual plane--exactly the kind of stuff that throws me. I have been struggling with it for some time and this is the first time that I have ever been remotely happy with it, although not perfectly of course.
   Whenever I occasionally get a new student who is very advanced and they bring in some big Liszt piece or any kind of virtuoso piece, my first impulse is to say "why don't we work on the Mozart Fantasy in D"--there is so much to be learned!
  Anyways, the main thing is that I'M DELIGHTED THAT YOU ENJOYED MY INTERPRETATION!