Release Date: 19 November 2021
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917286724
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The second disc by the Viennese Romantic guitar duo Morat-Fergo.
Following the successful and critically acclaimed disc devoted to Schubert (CC 72791), this new disc is made of transcriptions of piano sonatas by W.A.Mozart.
"Although being technically very different instruments, we are convinced that the romantic guitar and the fortepiano share the same aesthetics. This was proven to us for the first time when we finally recorded our Schubert album 'A Sentimental Moment' in 2018, with piano works arranged for our Viennese guitars. After this, it was natural for us to turn to a composer who has fired more interest than anyone else: Mozart. We do hope that these arrangements of Mozart's piano sonatas can suggest how he might have expressed his genius on our instrument. The shorter duration of the notes, as well as the delicacy and richness of colours found in the sound world of the guitar, are quite close to those of the late 18th Century fortepianos that Mozart would have known, while the dynamic range of the guitar would be very much at home in the salons and smaller concert venues of that time. Listening to the sonatas played on two guitars might be exotic, but the plucked sound fits in with the family of keyboard instruments." - Duo Morat-Fergo
Tracklisting
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Aart Bergwerff
Roberto Prosseda
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazic, Jan Willem de Vriend
Ton Koopman
Duo Saraswati
Duo Morat-Fergo
