German historical-instrument specialist Siegbert Rampe is not kidding around when he promises that his MDG-label series includes Mozart's "Complete Clavier Works." His recordings include pretty much every bit of keyboard music Mozart ever set down, including a great deal of juvenilia and, here on Vol. 8, some dances better known in orchestral settings but that apparently exist in preliminary keyboard versions (the booklet notes are not entirely clear on this point). It might all seem too pedantic, but Rampe pulls it off in ...
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German historical-instrument specialist Siegbert Rampe is not kidding around when he promises that his MDG-label series includes Mozart's "Complete Clavier Works." His recordings include pretty much every bit of keyboard music Mozart ever set down, including a great deal of juvenilia and, here on Vol. 8, some dances better known in orchestral settings but that apparently exist in preliminary keyboard versions (the booklet notes are not entirely clear on this point). It might all seem too pedantic, but Rampe pulls it off in a way that makes the series interesting for audiences beyond scholars of Mozart or the early piano. His best decision is that he makes frequent use of a clavichord, an instrument virtually ignored even by other historical-instrument players even though it is documented to have been used often by Mozart, even after the fortepiano came along. The instrument was current for his entire life; the American-built clavichord used here was patterned after a German instrument of 1795. Even for...
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