Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonatas for keyboard & violin, vol. 2 Sonata in C Major KV 303 (293c) 1 Adagio, Molto allegro 2 Tempo di Menuetto Sonata in D Major KV 7 (1763-64) 3 Allegro molto 4 Adagio 5 Menuet I & II Sonata in G Major KV 301 (293a) 6 Allegro con spirito 7 Allegro Sonata in F Major, KV 30 (1766) 8 Adagio 9 Rondo Sonata in E flat Major KV 481 10 Molto allegro 11 Adagio 12 Allegretto Total time 73.22 Instruments: Fortepiano: Anton Walter, Vienna 1795; copy by Derek Adlam, 1987 Violin; Pesarinius 1739
Rachel & I feel that, by using a fortepiano throughout, we present a sort of musical 'level playing field' with regard to our choice of Mozart's sonatas included on this disc - spanning as it does such a huge portion of the composer's life & musical development. While K.6 may at first appear to the listener as amiable juvenilia, sitting as it does alongside a sonata of such undoubted breadth & maturity as K.481, we firmly believe that allowing Mozart's early - and outstanding - ventures into this genre to speak for themselves by using using the same instruments throughout, we hope to draw attention to his early work in the best way - in a way that is not only so suggestive of what would in time follow, but also seeks to demonstrate the eight year old's already fecund imagination and uncanny sense of musical line. Gary Cooper
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