Family chamber music. This recalls Mozart himself, who played with his loved ones, his father, Leopold, and his sister, Nannerl. The atmosphere will still be a familiar one, even though the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall is more spacious than an 18th-century salon, and the two artists, although belonging to the same family, are two of the leading instrumentalists of our time. However, those who have already heard their performance can attest that, when they play together, there remains something that is unmistakably the sound of family. The directness of the mood, the intimacy of the gestures, the naturalness of the mode of expression - these are qualities that indicate that those who are coming before the audience here and now understand each other's thoughts and the glances of each other's eyes.
Their programme features works by Mozart: three sonatas and a series of variations. The variations are elegant, inventive, eclectic and rich in contradictions of character, and it is no coincidence that the titles of the sonatas reverse the order, compared to later practice, in which the two instruments are listed - these are sonatas for piano and violin - as in these cases the piano often plays a more important role than the string instrument. But we have nothing to fear: the violin also has plenty of work to do - producing a balance in the family chamber music of world class artists.

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