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Mozart & Beethoven: Sonates pour pianoforte & violon

4/1/2013, 9 Tracks, 1:07:26

Featuring

  • Helene Schmitt
  • Rémy Cardinale
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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Instruments

The recording features a Nicolò Gagliano violin from the early 1760s and a pianoforte made in 2006 by Christoph Kern, modeled after an Anton Walter & Sohn instrument.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The sonatas on this album represent the 'incandescent youth' of the pianoforte, which was then fully developed and offering new expressive possibilities for chamber music.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Mozart and Beethoven were approximately the same age when they composed the pieces featured on this album, reflecting their 'dashing spirit and sunny humour'.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The album was recorded in June 2010 at L'Heure Bleue, a music hall in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, known for its extraordinary acoustics.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

Mozart and Vigée-Lebrun, the painter whose work is featured on the album cover, were contemporaries who shared a sensitivity for Classicism and its expression of harmony.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album cover features Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun's 1796 painting, 'La Comtesse Skavronskaia,' which is housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Source: Booklet

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