Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - Mozart: Complete Sonatas For Keyboard And Violin, Vol. 2 (2008/2019) [24/192]

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

Tracklist:

Sonata In C-Major KV 303 11:06
1. Adagio _ Molto Allegro Mozart 05:13
2. Tempo di Menuetto Mozart 05:53

Sonata In D-Major KV 7 14:06
3. Allegro molto Mozart 04:46
4. Adagio Mozart 06:26
5. Menuet I & II Mozart 02:53

Sonata In G-Major KV 301 14:00
6. Allegro con spirito Mozart 08:17
7. Allegro Mozart 05:42

Sonata In F-Major KV 30 10:24
8. Adagio Mozart 07:20
9. Rondeau Mozart 03:03

Sonata In E-Flat Major KV 481 23:41
10. Molto allegro Mozart 07:02
11. Adagio Mozart 08:49
12. Allegretto Mozart 07:50