After the pure Haydn program last Wednesday, the next classic “family clan” was the focus yesterday. The Brucknerhaus matinee featured works by Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus and his youngest son Franz Xaver Mozart, who was driven by his mother Constanze to become a musician and achieved considerable fame as a pianist. Nevertheless, his works are largely forgotten today. This also applies to the 2nd Piano Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 25, which – composed around 1818 – stands in the tradition of Beethoven’s concertos and is quite fascinating.
Especially when a young pianist like Aaron Pilsan does not see this commitment as a tiresome obligatory exercise, but feels completely at home in the music and devotes himself to the fine details and not only unwinds sound cascades in a technically adept way, but gets to the bottom of the emotional core of the work . Then the quality of this apparent little master is more than tangible. But that may also have been due to the fact that the Bruckner Orchestra had Reinhard Geobel, a specialist for early music, on the podium, who showed his enthusiasm and esprit for the two Lambach symphonies by father and son Mozart as well as for the famous Prague symphony knew more than just transferring music to everyone.
Source: Nachrichten
