Aged twenty-three and twenty, Dutch pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen are well-known in the concert halls from Europe performing either as a duo or as soloists. Rumour has it that they are the protégés of Maria João Pires who helped them starting collaborating with the greatest orchestras in the world.

With this Mozart album which you are invited to listen to and enjoy within two episodes of CD-Review, the two Jussens demonstrate to us that they possesss real talent. An argument would be that their fourth album was signed with the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon.

Arthur and Lucas Jussen are such a refreshing presence, for some even striking, in black T-shirts and blonde hair, combed according to the latest fashion trends, performing Mozart on the piano. Despite this image, the performance of the two, radiates passion for playing, filled with freshness, sincerity and youthful exuberance which Wolfgang Amadeus would have wanted it himself.

Brothers Jussen have enjoyed an early success. In 2001, aged eight, Lucas reached the finale of the Three-day Rotterdam Piano Festival while Arthur, at the same age, was chosen as 'Young Musical Talent of the Year 2004' at the National Contest of the Young Musical Talent Foundation. In 2005, the brothers studied in Portugal and Brazil for nearly a year at the invitation of famous pianist Maria João Pires.

In 2011, Lucas and Arthur received the Concertgebouw Young Talent Award, a distinction which was awarded for the first time that year.

Despite their young age, the brothers have been performing Mozart for years now. At the age of nine, Lucas Jussen performed Piano Concerto No. 12, KV 414 on the big stage of Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In 2005 on the anniversary of Queen Beatrix's Silver Jubilee the brothers performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 10, KV 365. They performed the same score in 2012 at the concert which celebrated twenty years since the foundation of the famous Concertgebouw Master Pianists Series. These are promising credentials for the latest album Mozart which represents the beginning of their collaboration with Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner.

Album Mozart features Piano Concerto No. 7 in F major, KV 242 and Piano Concerto No. 10 in E-flat, KV 365 performed with the above mentioned orchestra while the Deluxe Edition contains a bonus, Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in D major, KV 381.

The two brothers are an ideal pair in this game of contrasts drawn by Mozart, letting one accompany the other or providing harmonic filling to the melody of the other. Arthur and Lucas communicate and match each other in tone, temperament and technique so that they sound like a single instrument played by a single pianist.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields and conductor Sir Neville Marriner balance the musical discourse along with the Mozart experience accumulated over the years and prove to be the best partners. There are times when the orchestra challenges the enthusiasm of the Jussen brothers or calms it so that the result should be a realistic portrait of Mozart. And in this way, performed by the two young brothers with blonde hair, combed according to the latest fashion trends and wearing black T-shirts, Mozart is present here with us, in our times.

In the hope that you will love it we invite you to vote for this album which is included in 'Vote the Best Classical Album of 2016' campaign.

On Radio Romania Music you can listen to Arthur and Lucas Jussen performing Mozart in the CD-Review section of Arpeggio show on 9^th and 10^th February.