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       “Piano“ 

             José Garnelo

                      _____

having heard Stravinsky’s Concerto for

Two Pianos already, if you’ve taken in 

my last instalment, you’ll find it perhaps 

the most instructive of any of my 

suggested comparisons to hear beside 

it Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos, the 

first, written in 1935, the second, 1781, 

you’ll hear the passage of time fly by  

both here are played by the same two

performers, brothers, incidentally, an 

extraordinary couple, making your 

aesthetic decision that much more

contained, straightforward

though Stravinsky might be here 

utterly unexpected, even disarming,

he’s evidently much more in tune 

with the Twentieth Century, even 

the 21st, than the more bucolic 

music of, energetic as it is, Mozart,

who is not of our era, however still 

entirely relevant

with Stravinsky, you hear the traffic, 

the hustle and bustle of modern life, 

the pulse and frenzy of a more 

frenetic century, though it must be 

remembered that Mozart wrote his 

piece between the American, 1776,

and the French, 1789, Revolutions,

a couple of historically seismic 

events, not at all not turbulent 

if you listen, you can hear it all in 

the music, art is like that

enjoy

R ! chard