Symphony No. 7: Beethoven’s Ecstasy

“Music is our sublime playground for the tensions between our temperaments, needs and worldviews, which we play out on the piano. But we also have a boss – and that is the composer and his masterpiece!” say Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen, who form one of the world’s most successful piano duos of our time. 

They have been playing together for over 40 years and are constantly discovering new repertoire. Mozart’s works are a constant feature of their repertoire, and their complete Mozart recordings have been highly acclaimed. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his only piano concerto for two instruments for his sister “Nannerl”, who was just as talented on the keyboard as he was himself. Two other accomplished musicians from Haydn’s Esterházy Orchestra inspired his Symphony in E flat major, which features a duet for violin and cello in the Adagio. And with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, the music resounds as an expression of pure joie de vivre.