MOZART, CONCERTO No. 20

MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 20

SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 7

Alexander Melnikov, piano

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Karel Deseure, conductor

UNMISSABLE 20TH CENTURYCLASSICISMSHORT CONCERT SYMPHONIC

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 opens with immediate drama: a minor key, incisive accents, and relentless tension give the work an almost theatrical intensity. Former laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Alexander Melnikov brings out its full power and poignant lyricism. As for Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 (1924), composed at the end of his life, it unfolds in a single continuous movement, where a solitary melody is transformed and developed with an intensity that is both mysterious and profoundly human. It is up to Karel Deseure to sculpt its hypnotic landscapes with luminous precision.

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Runtime : +/- 1h