Top classical musicians pick their favorite Mozart

Now that it's 225 years after Mozart's death, the Guardian asked a bunch of top classical musicians for their favorite pieces. Here's pianist and writer Alfred Bende (who's playing in the video):

The “Jeunehomme” piano concerto K271 is Mozart’s first great masterpiece. He was 21 when he composed it, and he was not a teenage genius like Mendelssohn. It is as if his earlier concertos are by another composer. Here, though, suddenly there is a structure and the most wonderful ideas, formal ideas, and a vision of everything the classical piano concerto could become, in subtlety and richness. For me, it is a perfect work, with that special freshness of something done for the first time and succeeding at the same time. I even find that he did not surpass this piece in the later piano concertos.