Mozart & Clementi: Piano Sonatas

Ciccolini, Aldo

Composed by: MOZART, W.,Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

Piano Sonatas Nos.12 & 14, Fantasy K475,

Clementi is now known mainly for his pedagogical works, but he is a major figure in the history of music for the piano, and was greatly admired by Beethoven for example. Though Ciccolini has always held his Sonata Op.34 No. 2 close to his heart, he had never recorded it before. He has now - and how sumptuously! - grouping it with works by Mozart. After a fi rst and highly-praised recording devoted to Mozart (La Dolce Volta LDV 03), he has now tackled his Sonata KV 332 and the celebrated diptych comprising Fantasy in C Minor KV 475 and Sonata in C Minor KV 457. Through their expressive depths and their preromantic accents, these Mozart works fi t nicely with Clementi's amazing Sonata Op.34 No.2. "One shouldn't be impatient in life, certain things demand a gestation period. I'm not impatient to play something, I need the time to fi nd myself ", says Aldo Ciccolini. More than just a CD, this new recording is testimony to the art of a living legend. Now 87 years of age, the master's source of wonder and appetite for music remain intact.

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