Louis Langrée, the music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival — now through 2023, Lincoln Center recently announced — has, during his nearly two-decade tenure, revitalized the festival’s orchestra impressively.

Bringing in top-notch guest conductors has been central to his vision, and this year has been no exception. The eminent Andrew Manze led the festival’s first orchestra concert last month, and on Saturday, the formidable Gianandrea Noseda was at the podium at David Geffen Hall, leading distinguished performances of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Schubert’s “Great” Symphony.

Mr. Noseda, fresh off his triumphant second season as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, may be best known to New Yorkers for his regular performances with the Metropolitan Opera. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the soloist in the Beethoven, first came to attention for his fearless advocacy of challenging contemporary music. (Just three weeks ago at the Caramoor Festival, he played a brilliant and scintillating account of Messiaen’s “Catalog of Birds.”)

But Mr. Aimard has a wide repertory and was a penetrating soloist in the Beethoven concerto. Though the first movement is generally majestic, the music is propelled by stretches of fleet, restless runs. Mr. Aimard conveyed both the Apollonian breadth and the rippling animation of the movement in his crisp, radiant playing. The solemn slow movement in this performance was like a poignant dialogue between stern strings and a pleading piano. The dancing finale had buoyancy and glee, though Mr. Aimard and Mr. Noseda made the most of the moments when the music turns mystical.