Nikolai Demidenko conjures a magical Mozart concerto

It's the 34th year that conductor George Cleve has brought his Midsummer Mozart Festival to the Bay Area, and the surprises keep coming. Thursday night at Mission Santa Clara, where Cleve and the Midsummer orchestra performed the festival's second program, it was pianist Nikolai Demidenko, a Russian who lives in Spain. He is a poet with balance, clarity, a feathery touch.

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