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Fiona Talkington introduces a concert in Victoria Hall, Geneva, in which Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires play the youthful Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Daniel Harding conducts the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Mahler’s First Symphony.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 10 in E flat for Two Pianos, K. 365

Interval:

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D (‘Titan’)

Martha Argerich, piano
Maria João Pires, piano
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Daniel Harding, conductor

Concert recorded December 16, 2021.

Two of the greatest pianists of our time, Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires, collaborate in the delightful double concerto which Mozart wrote in 1779, probably to play with his sister Nannerl. After the interval, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande plays Mahler’s First Symphony, another product of youth, but nevertheless - like the Mozart - stylistically fully-formed.