Rachel Podger - Complete Violin Sonatas BWV 1014-19 1021 & 1023 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Petit - Cyrano de Bergerac / Manon Des [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/27/2001

Channel Classics reissues the 8-CD box-set of Mozart's complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin. Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper make this difficult music sound effortless, witty and elegant on the first-ever recording of the complete sonatas on historical instruments. The inclusion of early, middle and late sonatas in this set conveys a balanced survey of Mozart's music for violin and keyboard. Each sonata stands out in it's own right, revealing a snapshot in time of his developing personality. Of the original releases, Gramophone Magazine said that Inchit's impossible to ignore the individuality, vitality and commitment of their performancesInch, while BBC Music Magazine noted that these are Inchcharacteristically intelligent and insightful performancesInch.

Best-selling American violinist Rachel Barton Pine, whose previous went straight to #1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart, debuts on AVIE with a survey of Mozart's complete Violin Concertos and the Sinfonia Concertante, in which she introduces the extraordinarily talented young violist Matthew Lipman. Her orchestra is none other than the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by their legendary founder, Sir Neville Marriner.