This first volume of the complete Mozart sonatas for pianoforte and violin performed by David Breitman and Jean-François Rivest is a great start to their series. The sonatas on the disc are the first Mozart wrote as a truly mature composer, plus one written for violinist Regina Strinasacchi in 1784 and his final sonata from 1787. Breitman uses a copy of a 1790 fortepiano, which is a relatively quiet fortepiano that could be overpowered by Rivest's Baroque violin. However, the performances are well-balanced, not only in ...
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This first volume of the complete Mozart sonatas for pianoforte and violin performed by David Breitman and Jean-François Rivest is a great start to their series. The sonatas on the disc are the first Mozart wrote as a truly mature composer, plus one written for violinist Regina Strinasacchi in 1784 and his final sonata from 1787. Breitman uses a copy of a 1790 fortepiano, which is a relatively quiet fortepiano that could be overpowered by Rivest's Baroque violin. However, the performances are well-balanced, not only in sound, but in many other ways as well, even though Mozart's violin parts are not quite equal in importance to the keyboard parts in these works. Breitman and Rivest are so precise and attentive to each other and their articulations, right down to the tiny mordants that are perfectly together. The Allegro movements of all the sonatas are very energetic and lively, and while the Andantes tend toward the serious, they are not at all weighty. The Sonata in D major, K. 306, is particularly...
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