Mozart Complete Sonatas for keyboard & violin vol. 2 - Gary Cooper & Rachel Podger - Channel Classics CCS SA 22805 (2005)
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The usual, excellent, Channel Classics DSD recording :)
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The duo partnership Gary Cooper & Rachel Podger has taken them worldwide. These recordings of Mozart’s Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin have received countless awards & accolades, including multiple Diapason d’Or awards & Gramophone Editor’s Choices, & hailed as ‘benchmark’ recordings.

“Finally, one asks why there hasn’t previously been a complete recording on historical instruments. From my ‘privileged’ position as listener-in-chief, I can tell you it is because no pair can make such transparent & difficult music sound so effortless, elegant, witty, emotionally persuasive & enjoyable. 
~ Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, producer.

Anyone thinking of Mozart as a performer probably imagines him at a harpsichord or fortepiano, an accurate picture. Mozart was a gifted keyboard player, but not a showman of the keyboard. He detested empty virtuosity. Wolfgang, however, had been trained from his earliest years by his father Leopold as a double talent. He played both harpsichord & violin. The popularity of his sonatas, variation sets, & concerti for the piano has tended to overshadow his violin compositions, but the 1st sounds that his baby ears received probably came from his father's violin. Wolfgang heard him tuning the instrument, saw him putting on new strings now & then, playing, rehearsing. He heard Leopold praising his violin & commenting on the music. Until Wolfgang moved to Vienna in 1781, the sound of the violin had accompanied him virtually every day of his life, for Leopold had been with him almost constantly........

Gary Cooper says:
Rachel & I feel that, by using a fortepiano throughout, we present a sort of musical 'level playing field' with regard to our choice of Mozart's sonatas included on this disc - spanning as it does such a huge portion of the composer's life & musical development. While K.6 may at 1st appear to the listener as amiable juvenilia, sitting as it does alongside a sonata of such undoubted breadth & maturity as K.481, we firmly believe that allowing Mozart's early - & outstanding - ventures into this genre to speak for themselves by using using the same instruments throughout, we hope to draw attention to his early work in the best way - in a way that is not only so suggestive of what would in time follow, but also seeks to demonstrate the 8 year old's already fecund imagination & uncanny sense of musical line. 

      Tracks:

Sonata in C Major KV 303 (293c)
01 Adagio / Molto Allegro 5
02 Tempo di Menuetto 5.48
Sonata in D Major KV 7 (1763-64)
03 Allegro molto 4.41
04 Adagio 6.25
05 Menuet I & II 2.45
Sonata in G Major KV 301 (293a)
06 Allegro con spirito 8.11
07 Allegro 5.30
Sonata in F Major KV 30 (1766)
08 Adagio 7.17
09 Rondeau 2.55
Sonata in E flat Major KV 481
10 Molto allegro 6.58
11 Adagio 8.45
12 Allegretto 7.50

      Time 73.22

      Musicians:

Rachel Podger, violin
Gary Cooper, fortepiano

Producer:	 Jonathan Attwood

      Recording:

The Church of Our Lady, St Mary, South Creake, UK (2004)
Engineer, Editing Jared C. Sacks

Technical information:
Microphones - Bruel & Kjaer 4006, Schoeps
Digital converter - DSD Super Audio/DCS AD/DA
Pyramix Editing/Merging Technologies
Speakers - Audio Lab, The Netherlands
Amplifiers - van Medevoort, The Netherlands
Piano tuner - Edmund Pickering


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