Giovanni De Cecco - Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2017)

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Title: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Da Vinci Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 79:07 min
Total Size: 398 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311: I. Allegro con spirito
02. Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311: II. Andante con espressione
03. Keyboard Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311: III. Rondo
04. Keyboard Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: I. Allegro
05. Keyboard Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio
06. Keyboard Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: III. Allegro assai
07. Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310: I. Allegro maestoso
08. Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310: II. Andante cantabile con espressione
09. Keyboard Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310: III. Presto


For nearly two centuries Mozart’s sonatas have been one of the main key points with which pianists have used to measure themselves in some way, whether they are used as exercises, études, concert pieces, thoroughly explored or superficially played, adapted or transcribed for different formations. They are and remain one of the main starting points to understand Mozart’s pianism and an insight into the intimacy of his being a composer, in a way that is not too different from Haydn’s sonatas of the same period. Many scholars have advanced hypotheses that they are nothing more than a way of fixing on paper what afterward Mozart, in his famous improvisations, would use only as a base to amaze his audience. While this might have some historical truth, it is undeniable that most of them constitute such a precise musical microcosm, whose structure is so finely chiseled that it would be very difficult to imagine how a virtuous development would have been of any improvement to the poetics that from every page, seems to be moving continuously.[…] (Translation by Luisa Antonelli)