Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mature Piano Pieces: Piano: Instrumental Album

Masterpiece Edition-The Sonata in C Major (No. 16) is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most popular Piano Sonatas. The Sonata in C Major was actually first published in 1805 some years after his death. This seemingly simple theme is actually one of Mozart's most mature works. The incredibly popular Masterpiece Edition is exclusively distributed by Santorella Publications.

As early as the age of four Mozart amazed his father with his quickness of mind as regards Piano-playing. The first works are easy dance movements by the five-year-old who developed with extraordinary speed. During his lifetime he created several Piano pieces apart from the sonatas and variations. The pieces from his youth most of them written down in the music book for Maria Anna Mozart and in the so-called London sketch book are mostly short dance movements but there are already lengthy individual movements as well. From the mid-1770s there are mainly larger individual works including fantasias and rondos which can stand as equals to the sonatas andvariations of the Viennese period.Volume 2 contains the mature works from the later years of composition including the popular fantasias and rondos as well as several sonata form drafts completed by comtemporaries of Mozart. In addition the present edition contains solo piano versions of the Concert Rondo K 382 the rondo from the Duo for Violin and Viola K 423 as well as the overture of the 'Abduction from the Seraglio'.

Music Minus One Piano Deluxe 2-CD Set-This impressive concerto has rightfully earned its nickname of 'Olympian' or 'Emperor.' Written in 1786 it enjoys many of Mozart's more mature trademarks as well as relying heavily on counterpoint and offers tremendous opportunity to the soloist. The first movement is majestic and broad in its development the 'Larghetto' second movement is especially lovely with a highly ornamented solo part and the third movement is very free and wildly cheerful. Listen to virtuoso Bruce Levy perform the concerto with the Plovdiv Philharmonic and then step into the limelight and try it on for size under the baton of Maestro Todorov - you will discover first-hand that this trulyis one of Mozart's most enjoyable concerti. This deluxe 2CD set includes a second slow-tempo practice version of the accompaniments to help you get up to speed. Includes an authoritative newly engraved music score printed on high-quality ivory paper and a compact disc containing a complete reference recording in digital stereo with soloist followed by a second version in digital stereo of the orchestral accompaniment minus the soloist and a second compact disc containing the complete version of the concerto followed by a -20% slow-tempo version of the accompaniment for practice purposes. Performed by Bruce Levy piano Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Nayden Todorov

Cette nouvelle édition indique que la composition populaire de Mozart est une oeuvre mature datant de son temps à Vienne, contrairement aux hypothèses précédentes, et que la terminaison traditionnelle ne correspond pas à la version originale. Les barres de clôture bien connus, qui ont évidemment été inclus dans cette édition, n'étaient pas en fait écrit par Mozart lui-même, mais probablement par August Eberhard Müller, qui ainsi en forme de la pièce se tenir debout sur ses propres. Version de manuscrit de Mozart toutefois, tel que documenté dans la première édition, finit dix barres plus tôt sur une corde septième dominante, laissant la voie ouverte pour la poursuite du développement et rendant concevable que la fantaisie a été écrit initialement comme une introduction à une sonate en ré majeur (à l'autre des fin sonates, 576 K, en fait). Avec cette information, l'édition ajoute une dimension totalement nouvelle à l'exécution de cette pièce largement connue. / Piano