Piano em Concerto
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Among Mozart's 27 concerto for piano and orchestra, Concerto nº 20, in D minor, is the best known with the greatest dramatic impact. It was written at the height of his career as a composer, in 1785, and he himself premiered it at the piano, achieving instant success. The originality of the piece made it a landmark of concertante writing, giving a new glow to the possible dialogues between the piano and the orchestra. Beethoven was strongly influenced by these ideas and took them even further. He also intended to give a role to the soloist that went beyond the confrontation with the orchestra, and his Concerto nº3 turns out to be especially revolutionary in terms of dramatic intensity and scale. The person invited to direct and perform these iconic pieces with Orquestra Sinfónica is David Fray, a prestigious French pianist who won over the audience from Porto last year, when he debuted in this hall.
