Nearly 6 years ago I noted about a Wagner piece, "No, that's not a virtually-unknown symphonic movement by Beethoven you're listening to. It's a virtually-unknown early symphonic movement by Wagner." This month, something similar might happen: upon first hearing, you might think this is an early Mozart work. It is not, but it is a work that Mozart was very fond of: Schröter's Piano Concerto in C Major. Mozart enjoyed Schröter's work so much, in fact, that he wrote cadenzas for three of the six concertos in the opus 3 collection, and wrote with high praise to Leopold about him. Unfortunately, these days Schröter is best remembered because his widow (Rebecca (Scott) Schröter) was a pupil and lover of Haydn's.

Schröter's concerto gets a beautiful performance from Murray Perahia here, included on the nineteenth CD of this fantastic collection, Murray Perahia: The First 40 Years. The collection has 68 CDs, 5 DVDs, and a terrific 275 page book with liner notes, essays, discographies, etc.