Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard - Mozart: Pieces pour Orgue, Sonates all’epistola (1991)

Mozart, the innovator, wrote for organ only out of necessity or for commission. The three most interesting pieces on this Accord CD are the two Fantasies (K608 & K594) (12:55 & 10:50)and the Andante (K616) (6:25) that he wrote for an organ that was built into a clock in the waxwork museum owned by Count Deym, alias Muller. Though that organ was limited both in tone & pitch, Mozart wrote for it some of his finest music, in 1790 and 1791, near the end of his life. The other nine works on this CD, recorded in France in 1991, are Sonates "all'epistola" which he wrote while employed as court organist in Salsburg between 1772 and 1780. Ranging from 3 to 5-1/2 minutes in length, they are church sonatas, written for two violins, cello, contrabasse, and organ. One of the two violinists, by the way, is Manfred Kramer. Organist Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard primarily provides a bass line in these sonatas, though she is soloist supreme in the three Orgelstuck for clock organ.