Grimaud used that cadenza in her Bowl performance; it accorded very well with her overall conception of the work: strong, forthright, dramatic, fully responsive to the music‘s D-minorness -- the key, after all, of Don Giovanni’s descent to Hell. Grimaud‘s last appearance at the Bowl had been sabotaged by video cameramen wandering around onstage and distracting her (as the screen clearly showed). This time she -- and Mozart -- were fully in charge.
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