Marie Kuijken - Mozart En Famille (2022) [Official Digital Download]

This recording of Mozart chamber music can be listened to as a pleasant private concert "en famille". The choice of the works is dictated solely by the specific instruments played by the three family members: violin, viola and keyboard. This is not a usual instrumentation in the chamber music repertoire, yet it is this combination that has given rise to a pleasantly varied programme - thanks to Mozart's inexhaustible genius!
The Sonata in C major, K. 296 is dated Mannheim, 11 March 1778. Mozart had left Salzburg with his mother in September 1777 to try his luck in Paris, but musical and amorous reasons caused him to spend five months in the musical city of Mannheim before he continued his journey to Paris. Mozart wrote the two Duos for violin and viola (K. 423 and K. 424) in 1783, when he was in Salzburg for a few weeks. In the first of the two duets (K. 423, in G major, recorded here), it is immediately obvious how both instruments are treated equally: both parts are extremely concertante, the dialogue is very intense. We also realise how well Mozart (who himself was an accomplished violin virtuoso, and also enjoyed playing the viola) understood and exploited the possibilities and the separate characters of the violin and the viola from within.

Track List:
[09:42] 01. Sigiswald Kuijken - Sonata in C Major, KV. 296 for fortepiano and violin (Mannheim, 1778): I. Allegro vivace
[06:15] 02. Sigiswald Kuijken - Sonata in C Major, KV. 296 for fortepiano and violin (Mannheim, 1778): II. Andante sostenuto
[04:31] 03. Sigiswald Kuijken - Sonata in C Major, KV. 296 for fortepiano and violin (Mannheim, 1778): III. Rondeau
[10:39] 04. Sigiswald Kuijken - Duo in G Major, KV. 423 for violin and viola (Salzburg, 1783): I. Allegro
[03:52] 05. Sigiswald Kuijken - Duo in G Major, KV. 423 for violin and viola (Salzburg, 1783): II. Adagio
[05:37] 06. Sigiswald Kuijken - Duo in G Major, KV. 423 for violin and viola (Salzburg, 1783): III. Rondeau - Allegro
[06:03] 07. Sigiswald Kuijken - Fantasie in D Minor, KV. 397 for fortepiano
[05:30] 08. Sigiswald Kuijken - “Kegelstatt” Trio, KV. 498 in E flat Major: I. Andante (Artaria original edition for violin, viola and piano, 1788)
[05:15] 09. Sigiswald Kuijken - “Kegelstatt” Trio, KV. 498 in E flat Major: II. Menuetto (Artaria original edition for violin, viola and piano, 1788)
[08:37] 10. Sigiswald Kuijken - “Kegelstatt” Trio, KV. 498 in E flat Major: III. Rondeaux (Artaria original edition for violin, viola and piano, 1788)