Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Alexander Kniazev, Edouard Oganessian
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0002
Release: 2005
Size: 217 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Violin Sonata No. 27 in G major, K379
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Allegro
Violin Sonata No. 18 in G major, K. 301 (arr. A. Kniazev)
03. I. Allegro con spirito
04. II. Allegro
Violin Sonata No. 24 in F major, K376
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andante
07. III. Rondeau: Allegretto grazioso
Although Mozart wrote no fewer than 34 sonatas for violin and keyboard, he didn’t compose even one for cello. Alexander Kniazev’s remarkable transcriptions of three of the violin sonatas for cello and piano go some way to remedying that deficiency. They transform the works, too: the cello brings out the rich, proto-Romantic sonorities implicit in the music.