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Review by JJ July 4, 2009 (4 of 8 found this review helpful)
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Performance: Sonics (S/MC): / |
With these volumes 7 and 8, we encounter an Allegro KV 372 taken from an unfinished sonata, the 6 Variations on “Alas, I Have Lost My Lover” KV 374b, the Sonata KV 26, the Fantasy for Piano KV 396, according to a fragment from a piece for violin and piano by Mozart, composed by Maximilian Stadler, the 12 Variations “The Shepherdess Célimène,” KV 374a, as well as the Sonatas KV 10 to KV 15. As earlier, these volumes are magic. Magical tones, magical musicality, magical artistic involvement, and, of course, the pleasure the magic brings. For, as Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, producer of the recording, notes: “Gary Cooper and Rachel Podger have discovered a special essence in this music that illuminates our knowledge of this form under Mozart’s pen. For this reason, this series of recordings can seem radical for some. For others, it can elevate the dialogue and analysis so as to place them on a new level, in a new light.” There is no denying it: Gary Cooper and Rachel Podger are the champions of this modern benchmark that will henceforth be impossible to ignore.
Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman
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