Budapest Festival Orchestra / Arthur & Lucas Jussen / Iván Fischer
Andriessen / Mozart / Beethoven
Mozart bliss for four hands
Unlike his numerous piano sonatas for four hands, Mozart wrote only one concerto for piano duo, for himself and his sister Nannerl. But as applies to all the other works for four hands, here too we can say that without this concerto, written in Salzburg in 1779, the life of a piano duo would be much the poorer. So when the Dutch brothers Arthur and Lucas Jussen perform this repertoire classic, it is something to look forward to. Whether they are in the recording studio, as they were in 2015, accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields – or live, as they are here with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under its founder Iván Fischer.
The two other works on the programme are likewise taken from the midst of life. In his 1975 piece »Workers Union«, Dutch composer Louis Andriessen left the choice of instruments up to the members of the orchestra. And Beethoven’s »Eroica« remains a musical memorial against war and oppression to this day.
Performers
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Arthur Jussen piano
Lucas Jussen piano
conductor Iván Fischer
Programme
Louis Andriessen
Workers Union
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für zwei Klaviere und Orchester Es-Dur KV 316a
Zugabe der Solisten:
Igor Roma
»Strausseinander«
– Interval –
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sinfonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55 »Eroica«
Zugabe des Orchesters:
Antonín Dvořák
Abendsegen / aus: Vier Chorlieder op. 29
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