Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6 & 8

[this recording] will challenge all your preconceptions of these works. — Early Music Review, February 2015

Release Date: 9th Feb 2015
Catalogue No: ACC24296
Label: Accent
Series: Schooderwoerd Mozart Piano Concertos
Length: 59 minutes

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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K246 "Lützow"

Work length21:11

Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano)
Cristofori
Recorded: 2-4 May 2014
Recording Venue: Eglise Notre-Dame, Besancon

I. Allegro aperto

Track length7:48

II. Andante

Track length6:37

III. Rondeau: Tempo di minuetto

Track length6:46

Mozart: Si mostra la sorte, K209

Work length3:56

Francisco Fernández-Rueda (tenor)
Cristofori
Recorded: 2-4 May 2014
Recording Venue: Eglise Notre-Dame, Besancon

Mozart: Con ossequio, con rispetto, KV 210

Work length2:42

Francisco Fernández-Rueda (tenor)
Cristofori
Recorded: 2-4 May 2014
Recording Venue: Eglise Notre-Dame, Besancon

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, K238

Work length31:11

Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano)
Cristofori
Recorded: 2-4 May 2014
Recording Venue: Eglise Notre-Dame, Besancon

I. Allegro aperto

Track length7:01

II. Andante un poco adagio

Track length5:19

III. Rondeau: Allegro

Track length7:02

I. Allegro aperto (alternative cadenza)

Track length6:48

II. Andante un poco adagio (alternative cadenza)

Track length5:01

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Arthur Schoonderwoerd, one of today's most sought-after interpreters on the fortepiano, presents the fourth part of his complete recording of Mozart's piano concertos on the Accent label with this release of the two early Piano Concertos, KV238 and KV246. As on their previous issues, Schoonderwoerd and his ensemble Cristofori here liberate Mozart's works from traditional 19th-century sound concepts: each string part in the orchestra is played by just one performer; the result is a very slender, transparent sound that supports the solo instrument without ever covering it up. In the Concerto in B-flat major, KV 238, the fortepiano attains a range of five octaves for the first time in Mozart's oeuvre and requires a correspondingly larger instrument. The Concerto in C major, KV 246 has numerous dynamic markings in the solo part and was thus probably intended for a 'modern' fortepiano with these possibilities at its disposal. Although long dismissed as a mere dilettante concerto, this work is anything but technically undemanding when presented on an instrument of its time. Schoonderwoerd plays these concertos, both composed in Salzburg in 1777, on a replica of a fortepiano by Späth & Schmahl from the last third of the 18th century. The recording is rounded off by two alternative cadenzas to the Concerto, KV 238 and the concert arias 'Si mostra la sorte' (KV209) and 'Con ossequio, con rispetto' (KV210), sung by the young Spanish tenor Francisco Fernández-Rueda.

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Early Music Review February 2015

[this recording] will challenge all your preconceptions of these works.

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6 & 8

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