Jérôme Hantaï - Mozart: Rondos and Sonatas (2024)

During his travels, Mozart often needed new pieces: in Mannheim, for example, he composed the Sonata in C major for the thirteen-year-old Rosa Cannabich, and later, in Linz, the Sonata in B flat, presumably as a concert piece for himself. These two brilliant sonatas are plaved here on an original fortepiano of the late eighteenth century, similar to those by Stein that Mozart loved so much, and accompanied by the three wonderful rondos for piano of 1786/87. ‘Clarity, tranquillity, grace: the hallmark of the works of art of Antiquity is also that of the Mozartian school’, wrote Schumann.

Tracklist
01. Mozart- Piano Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K. 309- I. Allegro con spirito
02. Mozart- Piano Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K. 309- II. Andante un poco adagio
03. Mozart- Piano Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K. 309- III. Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso
04. Mozart- Rondo in F Major, K. 494
05. Mozart- Rondo in D Major, K. 485
06. Mozart- Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, K. 333- I. Allegro
07. Mozart- Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, K. 333- II. Andante cantabile
08. Mozart- Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, K. 333- III. Allegretto grazioso
09. Mozart- Suite in C Major, K. 399- Allemande in C Minor (Andante)
10. Mozart- Rondo in A Minor, K. 511