Olga Pashchenko is a versatile keyboard performer, equally adept on fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, and contemporary piano, performing repertoire from Bach to Ligeti.
Compositional Technique
The Andantino of Concerto No. 9, with its Baroque inspiration, has a tragic mood that prefigures the slow movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola (K.364).
Composition History
The 'Jeunehomme' Concerto (K.271) was actually written for a 'Dame Victoire Noverre', the eldest daughter of dancer Marguerite-Louise Sauveur and ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre.
Compositional Technique
The Rondeau of Concerto No. 9 includes a lilting minuet, likely a nod to Jean-Georges Noverre, the ballet master and father of the concerto's dedicatee.
Instruments
Olga Pashchenko performs Concerto No. 9 on a Paul McNulty fortepiano after J.A. Stein (1788) and Concerto No. 17 on a McNulty fortepiano after A. Walter (c.1792).
Composition History
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major (K.453) was dedicated to and first played by 'Fräulein Babette' (Barbara Ployer), his student and niece of Gottfried Ignaz von Ployer.
Performer Biography
Il Gardellino, founded in 1988 by oboist Marcel Ponseele and flautist Jan De Winne, specializes in historically informed performance practice.
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