Following their beautiful album Dussek (5 stars in BBC Music Magazine), Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya of Duo Pleyel explore the fundamental role a musical father figure can play in shaping another composer. From Mozart's first meeting with Johann Christian Bach (the 'London Bach') as a young boy in England in 1764, an extraordinary musical bond and mutual respect developed between the two great composers. The lifelong influence of the older musician on Mozart is often greatly underestimated, but Mozart quoted musical fragments and themes from Christian throughout his life, most poignantly in the slow movement of his A major piano concerto K. 414, which he wrote shortly after Christian's death. The programme on this recording brings their four-hand music together to show both the influence and the individuality of these beautiful composers.
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