Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Edin Karamazov, Pavel Steidl
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP309
Release: 2023
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 59 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:49
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio e cantabile
03. III. Finale. Tempo di Minuet
04. Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K475
Schubert: Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’, D821
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Allegretto
By the mid-18th Century, Vienna had established itself as the centre of European musical life, witnessing the development of the Classical style and then Romanticism.
At the same time, the guitar was rapidly evolving and, in the absence of interesting original compositions, its repertoire saw the flourishing of a whole host of arrangements, before the mad ‘guitar mania’ that was to take hold in the 19th Century. Here, Edin Karamazov and Pavel Steidl perform new arrangements for two guitars of three emblematic works of that period. Bringing together pieces illustrating the structural mastery and playfulness of Haydn, the melodic inventiveness of Mozart and the poetic imagination of Schubert, they present a musical portrait, for twelve strings and four hands, of the Austrian capital at that time.