WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in F major, KV 242

In his short lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed over 600 works. It would be hard to find another composer who has excelled in so many genres and forms. Mozart was particularly fascinated with the concerto genre. His creative legacy includes numerous concerti for various instruments.

Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in F major was first written as a triple concerto: in Salzburg in 1776, the twenty-year-old composer wrote it for one of his noble patrons, Countess Maria Antonia Lodron, and her two daughters, Aloysia and Giuseppa, both professional pianists, the younger of whom had been the student of Wolfgang’s father Leopold Mozart. Later, in 1780, the composer made a version of this Concerto for two pianos, which is how it is usually performed. The Concerto impresses with its inexhaustible positivity, boundless imagination, vivid melodic lines, perfect detail and lyrical sound, poetically rendered by the genius.

Together with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Mozart’s vivid and cheerful score is performed by Anna and Lukas Geniušas Piano Duo and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor Martynas Stakionis.

PUBLISHED: 2023-05-12

ORCHESTRA: LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

CONDUCTOR: MARTYNAS STAKIONIS

PIANO: ANNA GENIUŠIENĖ

PIANO: LUKAS GENIUŠAS