Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Mozart: Piano Sonata in A minor, K. 310, and other works

CML call number: CD/CLASSICAL/Mozart
Performer:
Richard Goode.
Contents: Sonata in A minor, K. 310; March in C major, K. 408; Courante in E-flat major, K. 399; Gigue in G major, K. 574; Rondo in A minor, K. 511; Sonata in F major, K. 533/494.
Marcia Davenport wrote in her biography Mozart (780.92/Mozart): "[H]ad [Mozart's beloved Aloysia Weber] not cast [the 22-year-old] Wolfgang aside? Thus the whole miserable round of speculation and indecision was begun again. Where should he go? To whom should he fly? He writhed at the thought of Salzburg. He was in fact emotionally tired. His mind was misty and uncertain — he had never been this way before and he did not understand it. Now already five weeks had gone by [since his mother's death] and he was still quartered with [his host in Paris, Baron] Grimm, waiting only to be paid for five piano sonatas, which were in the hands of the engraver, among them the heartrending, youthfully tragic A minor (K. 310)" (pp. 128-129).

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