W.A. MOZART

Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin Vol. 5

 

Sonata in A, KV 305

Sonata in C, KV 403 (385c)

Sonata in Bb, KV 31

Sonata in D, KV 306

 

Rachel Podger - violin

Gary Cooper - fortepiano

 

Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper continue to impress the world with their Mozart series on historical instruments. This is the fifth super audio recording in a series of eight.

 

Volumes 1-4 are already being hailed as the benchmark recordings of these works, and they have been awarded three Diapason d’Or and two Gramophone Editors Choices.

 

Rachel Podger is widely recognised as one of the great violinists of her time – she won a Gramophone Award for her recording of Vivaldi’s La Stravaganza in 2003.

 

Gary Cooper is established as one of the foremost ambassadors of the harpsichord and fortepiano - in particular, as an interpreter of Bach’s & Mozart’s keyboard music.

 

Quotes for Vol. 1-4

“Podger and Cooper play with exquisite care for detail, beguiling phrasing and panache.”

The Sunday Times - Hugh Canning

 

"Mozart man and boy - and these performers deserve all the accolades. Cooper and Podger throw off the bright, strutting minuetfinale with winning mock-insouciance”

Gramophone – Editors Choice September 2006

 

“Forget recent competition in these violin and keyboard sonatas: the honours go to Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper’s series on period instruments… The most enjoyable Mozart disc so far this year.”

The Times - Geoff Brown

 

Channel Classics SACD CCSSA25608