This album features world premiere recordings of six sonata-allegros and a fantasia for violin and piano, completed by Timothy Jones from Mozart's fragments.
Composition History
Timothy Jones, a musician, educator, writer, and broadcaster, has been undertaking a project since 2013 to analyze and complete Mozart's late fragments.
Performer Biography
Rachel Podger, a leading interpreter of Baroque and Classical music, was the first woman to receive the prestigious Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2015.
Performer Biography
Rachel Podger is the founder and Artistic Director of the Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Brecon Baroque.
Compositional Technique
Mozart's violin sonatas, composed between 1778 and 1788, are considered more varied, formally experimental, and striking in character than his piano sonatas from the same period.
Performer Biography
Christopher Glynn is a Grammy award-winning pianist and accompanist, also serving as Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival.
Recording & Production
This recording was made in November 2020 at St John's Upper Norwood, London, using a Pesarinius violin from 1739 and a fortepiano loaned by the Calleva Collection.
