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Mozart and the Piano (2006)

On this second disc, Schubert’s haunting Piano Fantasy and Dvořák’s melancholy “Dumky” Trio preface an exquisite selection from Mozart’s vast catalogue of piano music, which has held a definitive place in the keyboard literature since Mozart’s time. The influence of Mozart’s piano works is apparent in the characteristic color and lyricism of Schubert’s and Dvořák’s piano writing. Schubert’s f minor Fantasy displays the four-hand tradition virtually invented by Mozart for performances with his sister. On the disc’s closing work, Mozart’s keyboard fluency emerges in the composer’s chamber arrangement of his Piano Concerto in E-flat Major.
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Selections
Fantasy for Piano, Four Hands, in f minor, D. 940 (1828) | Franz Schubert (18:02)
- Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
- Wu Han, Piano
Piano Trio in e minor, op. 90, Dumky (1891) | Antonín Dvořák (31:11)
- David Finckel, Cello
- Ani Kavafian, Violin
- Wu Han, Piano
Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 449 (1784) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (22:16)
- David Finckel, Cello
- Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
- Ani Kavafian, Violin
- Scott Pingel, Double Bass
- CarlaMaria Rodrigues, Viola
- Joseph Silverstein, Violin
Artists
- David Finckel, Cello
- Jeffrey Kahane, Piano
- Ani Kavafian, Violin
- Scott Pingel, Double Bass
- CarlaMaria Rodrigues, Viola
- Joseph Silverstein, Violin
- Wu Han, Piano
Music@Menlo LIVE’s Returning to Mozart series commemorates the festival’s fourth season, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Total Time: 72:79
Discs: 1
Price: $15.00
Year Recorded: 2006