Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Keiko Shichijo
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Bridge
Catalogue: BCD9570
Release: 2021
Size: 290 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01.Fantasia in D minor, K397
Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K311
02. I. Allegro con spirito
03. II. Andante con espressione
04. III. Rondeau; Allegro
Piano Sonata No. 5 in G, K283
05. I. Allegro con spirito
06. II. Andante
07. III. Presto
08. Rondo in A minor, K511
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K310
09. I. Allegro maestoso
10. II. Andante cantabile con espressione
11. III. Presto
Fortepianist Keiko Shichijo presents a radically fresh view of Mozart’s keyboard music. Neal Peres Da Costa, Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music writes: “Keiko Shichijo has been inspired to reimagine a Mozart that is highly expressive, rhetorical, and even occasionally volatile”. Shichijo’s brilliant Mozart was recorded on an original Frère et Soeur Stein d’Augsbourg à Vienne dated 1802. Mr. Da Costa calls the instrument “absolutely ravishing in sound, with a clarity, crispness, and resonance that is ideally suited to Mozart’s piano writing”. Keiko Shichijo is a special voice in both the Classical and new music worlds. Her traditional Japanese sensibilities combined with her knowledge of European historical performance practices shape her unique vision, and this is reflected in her feeling for the music, the instruments and the story behind them.