Franz Xaver Mozart: Variations

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Mozart Junior’s at his most inventive when the source-material is least inspired here, treating a motif from his father’s Don Giovanni with understandably cautious reverence but having a ball... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, June 2021 More…

Release Date: 11th Jun 2021
Catalogue No: CD3033
Label: Claves
Length: 56 minutes

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Mozart, F X: Variations on a Theme of an Ukrainian Folk Song 'A Neighbor Has a White House', Op. 18

Work length5:41

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

Mozart, F X: Fantasy on a Russian Folk Song 'How Did I Upset You' and a Krakowiak, FXWMVII:30

Work length14:33

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

I. Fantasy

Track length9:30

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II. Krakowiak

Track length5:03

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Mozart, F X: Variations on a Theme of the First Finale of 'Don Giovanni' by W. A. Mozart, Op. 2

Work length9:59

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

Mozart, F X: Variations for 2 and 3 Hands on a Theme 'Je t’aime tant' by P. J. Garat, FXWMVII:18

Work length5:29

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

Mozart, F X: Variations on an Unknown Theme, Op. 13

Work length6:31

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

Mozart, F X: Variations on a Marche Golcondoise from the First Act of 'Aline, Reine de Golconde' by H. M. Berton, Op. 3

Work length8:24

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

Mozart, F X: Variations on an Ukrainian Theme 'The Wagons Rolling Down the Hill', Op. 6

Work length2:36

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

Mozart, F X: Variations (2) on a Walz of Anton Diabelli, FXWM VII:35

Work length3:38

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Andriy Dragan (piano)

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Already at my early stage of pianist, I felt especially drawn to the compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart, the younger of Wolfgang Amadeus’s two sons. His music touched my soul, sincere and joyful, yet reveling the heart of a man in despair. Despite his long¬term musical success and his undeniable impact on the multicultural life of Galicia, Franz Xaver has remained to this day in the shadow of his famous father who died so young.

It was F. X. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major that I played with the INSO Lviv Orchestra on my first concert tour through Switzerland. Today, Switzerland has become my second home, and it is here that I have made this CD. It has long been a dream of mine to offer these musical jewels to a broader public. So I should like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has helped me to realise this CD project to present the Piano variations of the “Lviv Mozart” on the occasion of his 230th birthday.

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June 2021

Mozart Junior’s at his most inventive when the source-material is least inspired here, treating a motif from his father’s Don Giovanni with understandably cautious reverence but having a ball fashioning a silk purse from the four-square, sow’s ear-ish theme from Henri-Montan Berton’s Aline, reine de Golconde. Dragan’s investment, however, never falters throughout the programme, with oodles of flair in the folk-song sets and flashes of impish humour in the closing Diabelli Variations.

Franz Xaver Mozart: Variations

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