Mari Ot

Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, Yoon Kuk Lee, Cyprien Katsaris, Mari Ot – Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos, Vol. 4 (Live – K. 242 & 365) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:54 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Classical
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With volume 4 of the complete Mozart Concertos, Cyprien Katsaris, Mari Ota and Eung-Gu Kim and the Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie under the baton of the Korean conductor Yoon K. Lee address the Concertos for two and three pianos, K. 365 and K. 242. These pieces, written in Mozart’s home city, bear witness to the relationships Mozart enjoyed with his pupils in the Salzburg aristocracy. Composed for Josepha Barbara von Auernhammer, the Concerto for two pianos, K. 365 is characterised by its virtuoso interplay between the pianists; the use of the two instruments afforded the composer an opportunity to establish a continuous dialogue. The Concerto for three pianos, K. 242 was dedicated to Countess Antonia Lodron and her two daughters Aloysia and Josepha. This elegant, very distinctive piece reveals Mozart’s concern to avoid upsetting his public or his patrons by too great a show of passion… It is of no little interest to hear the two-piano version of the same Concerto as revised by the composer to play with his sister Nannerl.

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