K 365 Piano Concerto No 10 in Eb for Two Pianos

It is not known when Mozart completed this concerto for two pianos in E-flat major, K. 365/316a, but research by Alan Tyson shows that cadenzas for the first and third movements are written in his and his father's handwriting on a type of paper used between August 1775 and January 1777. It is presumed that Mozart wrote it to play with his sister Maria Anna (“Nannerl”). Years later he performed it in a private concert with pupil Josepha Barbara von Auernhammer. The concerto was originally scored for the two pianos together with two oboes, two bassoons; two horns; and strings. Mozart later expanded the score with pairs of clarinets, trumpets and timpani in E flat and B flat. The piece is in three movements: WIKIPEDIA



VIDEO: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for two Pianos, K. 365 No. 10 Vladimir Ashkenazy & Daniel Barenboim, pianos

K. 310 Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor,

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310/300d, was written in 1778 and consists of three movements: The A minor sonata is the first of only two Mozart piano sonatas in a minor key (the other being No. 14 in C minor, K. 457). It was written in one of the most tragic times of his life: his mother [Anna Maria Mozart]had just died, and his father blamed him for his wife's death. Mozart was devastated, and poured his constant torment into his sonata, one of the darkest. The last movement in particular has an obsessive, haunted quality about it.
WIKIPEDIA VIDEO: Daniel Barenboim's historically excellent interpretations of Mozart's Piano Sonata's is explored once again here in the A minor sonata K.310. His rendition on this clip from the late 80's...