Melbourne Recital Centre and Australian National Academy of Music present:

MOSTLY MOZART: MOZART & MARSEILLAISE

In the final Mostly Mozart of 2025, ANAM Artistic Director Paavali Jumppanen returns to direct a showcase of Mozart at his most collaborative.

Opening with a delightful rarity, Mozart’s sonatas for four-hands, these works, originally written to be performed with his sister Nannerl, are the ultimate depiction of playful competition and now live on as intimate conversations between instrumentalists.

The four-hands approach to music-making continues in ANAM Head of Piano Timothy Young’s arrangement of La Marseillaise – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle’s National Anthem of France. A topic of regular debate, many scholars believe de Lisle’s patriotic song took inspiration from the march-like tune in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.25; a debate audiences can settle for themselves when Paavali and the ANAM Orchestra come together to perform the majestic composition. With Jumppanen’s extraordinary artistry, the moments of intimate dialogue between piano and orchestra are the perfect display of why this is considered the great composer’s grandest concerto.