Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano and violin

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Both players on this warmly recorded release respond to the distinctive soundworlds of these works with performances of great subtlety and flexibility. As in her recordings of the Mozart Violin... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: HMM902360
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 65 minutes

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November 2018

Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 23 in D major, K306

Work length22:03

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Isabelle Faust (soloist), Alexander Melnikov (soloist)

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length7:12

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$1.75

II. Andante cantabile

Track length7:42

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III. Allegretto

Track length7:09

$1.20

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$1.75

Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K304

Work length17:15

$2.60

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$3.80

Isabelle Faust (soloist), Alexander Melnikov (soloist)

I. Allegro

Track length10:02

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II. Tempo di minuetto

Track length7:13

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Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 35 in A major, K526

Work length26:27

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Isabelle Faust (soloist), Alexander Melnikov (soloist)

I. Molto allegro

Track length9:44

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II. Andante

Track length9:40

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III. Presto

Track length7:03

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In this first volume of Mozart’s duos, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov revive on period instruments the tradition of the ‘sonata for keyboard with violin accompaniment’.

Born in the middle of the Age of Enlightenment, this rather unusual concept continued to thrive in the era of Viennese Classicism even if, long before Beethoven, Mozart swiftly sealed its fate by instigating (or, in a sense, restoring) an increasingly lively conversation between the two instruments. What a beautiful couple they were to make! Here is the first chapter in their story.

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January 2019

Both players on this warmly recorded release respond to the distinctive soundworlds of these works with performances of great subtlety and flexibility. As in her recordings of the Mozart Violin Concertos, Isabelle Faust uses vibrato extremely sparingly, but still manages to create an astonishing variety of timbres…Melnikov, performing on a modern reproduction of an Anton Walter fortepiano, also maximises the textural variety in Mozart’s writing.

November 2018

For those attuned to the less refined sound of period instruments, Faust and Melnikov demand to be heard.

November 2018

It’s only a fortnight since I was singing the praises of Faust and Melnikov’s wonderfully transparent account of the Debussy Violin Sonata, and many of the same virtues are apparent in these lively readings of three Mozart sonatas – each artist has a seemingly instinctive gift for knowing when to recede and when to take centre-stage, and their willingness to embrace unvarnished sonorities gives these period-instrument performances a bracing quality that’s immediately engaging and refreshing.

25th November 2018

In two of the six sonatas Mozart published in Paris in 1778, their mercurial dialogue in K304 (E minor) sounds more natural than the mannered andante cantabile of K306 (D major), but they are at their best “conversing” with breezy fluency in the great A major K526.

Mozart: Sonatas for fortepiano and violin

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