Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917275827
Catalog number: CC 72758
Releasedate: 08-09-17
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917275827
Releasedate: 08-09-17
- The Kuijkens are again busy with Mozart: too generous!
- Earlier this year we released the Piano Concertos K 413-415 in Piano+String Quartet original version
- Here are now the REAL Piano Quartets K 478 & 493: among the least famous masterpieces of Mozart’s
- Once more the Kuijkens convey a totally fresh and rejuvenating reading to this most beautiful music
- Earlier this year we released the Piano Concertos K 413-415 in Piano+String Quartet original version
- Here are now the REAL Piano Quartets K 478 & 493: among the least famous masterpieces of Mozart’s
- Once more the Kuijkens convey a totally fresh and rejuvenating reading to this most beautiful music
The two piano quartets, written in 1785 and 1786, are all-encompassing – the appeal of a piano concerto in miniature on the one hand, and the mystery and intimacy of the most heavenly chamber music on the other. Mozart created this genre practically from scratch. Indeed, his treatment of these four instruments as equal partners was unheard of in his day. The silence, both empty silence and full silence, I experience in the slow movement of the second piano quartet, is like a balm, while the intense power of expression of both opening movements leaves me speechless.