Mozart: Piano & Violin Sonatas

Sareika, Vineta, Savary, Amandine

MU 041

After their disc of Grieg Sonatas, the Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika and the French pianist Amandine Savary tackle Mozart for their second recording. In three very different sonatas, the two former partners of the Trio Dali demonstrate once again a sublime, jubilant feeing for chamber music.

The earliest compositions of the young Wolfgang Amadeus appeared in printed form when he was only eight years old. Among these are the Sonates pour le Clavecin Qui peuvent se jouer avec l’Accompagnement du Violon, a title he retained until, 15 years later, he began seriously to write and develop his sonatas for piano and violin.

In the Sonata K. 376 that opens this programme, the dialogue between the violin and the piano is of intense diversity and as a whole the work develops both charm and considerable tranquility.

Dating from the same year, the Sonata K. 379 is one of the most beautiful and original of Mozart’s works for piano and violin; its structure is unusual: the first movement begins with an elaborate Adagio that connects to a forthright, agitated Allegro. The second movement, a ‘Theme and Variations’, exploits great freedom and diversity of atmosphere before reaching a gentle, discrete conclusion.

The Sonata K. 526 that concludes this disc is one of the most dazzling of his compositions, with big movements in exceptionally quick tempi; there reigns here the permanent impression that the composer is delighting in his natural mastery of counterpoint and his art, uniquely so!

CD x 1

Muso

9/30/20

5425019973414