Mozart: Sonatas & Fantasies

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Elena Bashkirova…renders Mozart on a modern keyboard with smart tempos and restrained vehemence, which serves the material very well. The embellishments in the repeats of the sonata movements... — Fanfare, May/June 2023 More…

Release Date: 27th Jan 2023
Catalogue No: AVI8553498
Label: Avi Music
Length: 78 minutes

Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Solo Instrumental

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 in B flat major, K333

Work length22:55

$3.30

$4.50

Elena Bashkirova (piano)
Recorded: 2020-01
Recording Venue: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

I. Allegro

Track length7:51

$1.10

$1.50

II. Andante cantabile

Track length8:22

$1.10

$1.50

III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length6:42

$1.10

$1.50

Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K397

Work length6:35

$1.10

$1.50

Elena Bashkirova (piano)
Recorded: 2020-01
Recording Venue: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K475

Work length13:49

$1.10

$1.50

Elena Bashkirova (piano)
Recorded: 2020-01
Recording Venue: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K457

Work length23:21

$3.30

$4.50

Elena Bashkirova (piano)
Recorded: 2020-01
Recording Venue: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

I. Molto allegro

Track length8:46

$1.10

$1.50

II. Adagio

Track length9:21

$1.10

$1.50

III. Allegro assai

Track length5:14

$1.10

$1.50

Excerpt, Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Work length11:44

$1.10

$1.50

Elena Bashkirova (piano)
Recorded: 2020-01
Recording Venue: Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

IV. Allegretto con variazioni (Arr. Anonymous for Piano, K. Anh. 137)

Track length11:44

$1.10

$1.50

About
Reviews
Explore

About

In 2019, Elena Bashkirova played a Mozart/Dvorak recital in the Berlin Philharmonie. This evening triggered the recording of the Mozart programme on this CD, in Berlin's Pierre Boulez Hall.

"Mozart is the purest of all musicians; he is music itself," affirmed Claude Debussy. And where, if not in Mozart's works for keyboard, could we find a more fitting example of utter clarity and purity in music? His keyboard output was vast, particularly in view of his short lifespan. The purity referred to by Debussy runs like a red thread through the selection of works by Mozart featured on this CD.

Tender, exquisite melodies are what makes each one of these pieces so special. On the other hand, stunning virtuosity and any sort of grand gestures are kept in check. If virtuosity makes an appearance now and then, it is only with the purpose of providing brief contrast with themes and motifs that are utterly simple, yet at the same time magnificent as if the composer wanted to give these very themes a chance to display their full charm...."

Music historians long presumed that Mozart had written his Sonata No. 13 in B Flat Major K. 333 in Vienna around 1785. However, musicologist Alan Tyson recently provided convincing proof that Mozart must already have composed it in 1783 in Linz. The sonata is written on different paper than he used in Vienna.... Like dark thoughts flowing over a bed of melancholy, the opening arpeggios in Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor K. 397 (written between 1782 and 1785) lead through a series of brief sighing motifs to the main theme, which, in turn, will soon and often be interrupted by passages in a series of changing moods: at times heavy and despondent, at others nervous and agitated. ... ( excerpt from the booklet, 2022 Sebastian Jacob)

Reviews

May/June 2023

Elena Bashkirova…renders Mozart on a modern keyboard with smart tempos and restrained vehemence, which serves the material very well. The embellishments in the repeats of the sonata movements are properly an enhancement of the music and not a distraction.

Mozart: Sonatas & Fantasies

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue