On this release by the MultiPiano Ensemble, the listener's attention may be drawn to the unfamiliar central item, the Larghetto and Allegro for two pianos and orchestra in E flat major. This was an incomplete work by Mozart, possibly written around 1781, and set down on four staves. Others, beginning with Mozart's executor Maximilian Stadler, have completed the work but have assumed it was meant as a two-piano sonata, and indeed, there is no evidence it was planned as a concerto. However, it's an interesting thing, and the ...
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On this release by the MultiPiano Ensemble, the listener's attention may be drawn to the unfamiliar central item, the Larghetto and Allegro for two pianos and orchestra in E flat major. This was an incomplete work by Mozart, possibly written around 1781, and set down on four staves. Others, beginning with Mozart's executor Maximilian Stadler, have completed the work but have assumed it was meant as a two-piano sonata, and indeed, there is no evidence it was planned as a concerto. However, it's an interesting thing, and the completion by the MultiPiano Ensemble's Tomer Lev catches the operatic nature of the music and presents it as a step, perhaps tentative, in the introduction of dramatic qualities into Mozart's concertos. The real news here is the performance of the two established Mozart multiple piano concertos, which attests to the value, just as with any other kind of ensemble, of having a dedicated group devoted to the form. There are very few established multiple piano groups (The 5 Browns are...
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