Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin
CML call number: CD/CLASSICAL/Mozart
Contents: Sonata for piano and violin in F major K377, Sonata for piano and violin in C major K303, Sonata for piano and violin in E minor K304, Sonata for piano and violin in A major K526.
Russell Platt wrote in the New Yorker: "[W]ith the composer's two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday approaching, it's no wonder that new disks are filling the stores. … But the first crop of releases includes something of a surprise: three world-renowned musicians have recorded Mozart's violin sonatas. … One of the three — Mitsuko Uchida — is a pianist, which reminds us that these works have been traditionally known as 'Sonatas for Piano and Violin.' She has recorded four of them on Philips with Mark Steinberg, the first violinist of the Brentano String Quartet, and the cover photograph shows Steinberg standing several paces behind his famous colleague. But there is real dialogue here, and a shared sensibility. Since Uchida produces her glowing sounds on a modern Steinway, volume and accents are smoothed away from the extremes, leaving Steinberg to inject some vivid colors and risky phrasings" ("Classical Notes: Mozart for Christmas," 11/28/05).
Contents: Sonata for piano and violin in F major K377, Sonata for piano and violin in C major K303, Sonata for piano and violin in E minor K304, Sonata for piano and violin in A major K526.
Russell Platt wrote in the New Yorker: "[W]ith the composer's two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday approaching, it's no wonder that new disks are filling the stores. … But the first crop of releases includes something of a surprise: three world-renowned musicians have recorded Mozart's violin sonatas. … One of the three — Mitsuko Uchida — is a pianist, which reminds us that these works have been traditionally known as 'Sonatas for Piano and Violin.' She has recorded four of them on Philips with Mark Steinberg, the first violinist of the Brentano String Quartet, and the cover photograph shows Steinberg standing several paces behind his famous colleague. But there is real dialogue here, and a shared sensibility. Since Uchida produces her glowing sounds on a modern Steinway, volume and accents are smoothed away from the extremes, leaving Steinberg to inject some vivid colors and risky phrasings" ("Classical Notes: Mozart for Christmas," 11/28/05).
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