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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Volume 48 of the Glenn Gould Complete Jacket CollectionMozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
The Canadian musician Glenn Gould was undoubtedly one of the greatest pianists of all time. To mark the 75th anniversary of his birth, and the 25th anniversary of his death, Sony BMG Masterworks presents this seminal artist’s vinyl recordings as re-mastered CDs, designed to replicate the exact artwork of the original gramophone records in miniaturised form. Already issued as part of an 80-CD box set (88697130942), these albums are now being made available individually. | 
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| |  | Mozart - Lieder & Klavierstücke
Mozart: | Die betrogene Welt, K474 Abendempfindung an Laura, K523 Die Zufriedenheit, K473 An Chloë, K524 Sechs Variationen in G-Dur, K180 ("Mio caro Adone") Dans un bois solitaire, K308 Das Traumbild, K.530 Rondo in F major K494 Das Vielchen, K476 Der Fruhling, K597 Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge, K596 Gigue in G Major, K574 Lied zur Gesellenreise, K468 Die Verschweigung, K518 Das Lied der Trennung, K519 Wie unglücklich bin ich nit K147 Sei du mein Trost, K391 Fantasia in D minor, K397 |
Werner Güra (tenor) & Christoph Berner (fortepiano Streicher) After their highly personal exploration of the
Romantic lied,Werner Güra and Christoph Berner
now turn to a less well-known repertoire with this
selection of vocal and instrumental works.
Songs for voice and piano occupied Mozart almost
throughout his career as a composer. Between the
first extant song, An die Freude K53, written in the
autumn of 1768, and the last three completed in
January 1791, there are around thirty more works in the genre, which are spread irregularly over his
different creative periods.A dominant position is occupied by the year 1787, in which nearly a third of his
total song output is concentrated.
The Rondo in F major K494 of June 1786 is seldom played in its original version, namely as a separate piano
piece. Mozart later extended this graceful work by a few bars, changed the tempo marking, and used it in
this form as the final movement of his Piano Sonata K533. Scarcely better known is the 'kleine Gigue' in G
major K574.While the rondo is typical of the musical fashions of Mozart's time, the gigue harks back to the
long-vanished era of Bach and Handel. In this piece Mozart goes so far as to appropriate a theme from one
of Handel's harpsichord suites.Traces of Mozart's legendary skill in keyboard improvisation may be found in
the Fantasia in D minor K397 (1782), which is now among his most frequently played piano works.The Six
Variations in G major K180 are based on a theme from the Act II finale of Antonio Salieri's opera La fiera di
Venezia, with which Mozart probably became acquainted in Vienna in the summer of 1773.
As a lieder interpreter Werner Güra gives recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Lincoln Center in New York, the Barcelona Schubertiade and the Schubertiade
Schwarzenberg.Among his successful recordings for harmonia mundi are programmes of Schubert,
Schumann and Wolf - all selected as Editor's Choice by Gramophone magazine. “Werner Gürna makes real performance art of the slightest ditty. Christoph Berner, on his sweet-toned Streicher fortepiano, is intimately attuned to every nuance.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 **** |
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| |  | Favourite Harpsichord Encores
Robert Aldwinckle (harpsichord) harpsichords by John Horniblow “Robert Aldwinckle is an accomplished player, well known beyond early-music circles. He offers here a potpourri of familiar harpsichord pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries, intended as an introduction, which he performs on two replica instruments built by John Horniblow. The choice of repertoire ….is confidently performed.……many will be delighted to find so many of the harpsichord 'classics' gathered together on a single budget-price CD.” (Gramophone) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Piano Sonatas & Fantasies
Lars Vogt: “This recording represents my quite personal rediscovery of Mozart’s piano music.” | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: Fantasias and Sonatas
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| |  | Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25
Imogen Cooper (piano) Northern Sinfonia “This second instalment of Imogen Cooper's Mozart series with the trim and personable Northern Sinfonia juxtaposes the two climactic concertos of 1786: the sombrely dramatic C minor, and the Olympian C major. Perhaps K503's opening movement lacks something in majesty, for all Cooper's beauty of line and subtlety of colouring. But the finale is well-nigh ideal in its mingled grace and energy, its central oboe-piano love duet phrased with exquisite tenderness.
Cooper finely balances passion and lyrical pathos in the outer movements of the C minor and distils a rarefied simplicity in the Larghetto, with delicately judged touches of ornamentation.” The Telegraph, 21st June 2008 |
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| |  | Mozart - Works for Pianoforte
Jos van Immerseel (pianoforte) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Unheard MozartTwo 'new' sonatas and other unfinished works for piano
Anthony Goldstone (piano) Realised completed and performed by Anthony Goldstone. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Steinway Legends - Emil Gilels
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| |  | Steinway Legends - Mitsuko Uchida
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