Fleur de Son’s tribute and to Mozart continues with this second volume of his works for violin and piano. Long affiliated colleague and friend Jacques...

Fleur de Son’s tribute and to Mozart continues with this second volume of his works for violin and piano. Long affiliated colleague and friend Jacques passionately pursued this Mozart project with Christina Petrowska Quilico right to the very end, with a performance at the Chautauqua Festival on July 11, 2015. At his suggestion, they sight-read all the Mozart Sonatas. It was so much fun that soon some late sonatas appeared on a concert. He then insisted that all of them be performed in one day. As Petrowska Quilico recalls when she asked why, his response was that of Sir Edmund Hillary on climbing Mount Everest: “Because it is there!” Jacques observed: “It’s fun to see in one day the evolution of the form in Mozart’s head. He started very young… and the last sonatas were written three years before he died.” That remark led to the accomplishment of actually performing all of the sonatas in a marathon concert. Out of that experience this recording project emerged. The marathon concert lasted seven and a half hours, with three very short breaks. The artists were so energized that they just had to duplicate the excitement of the live performances by recording the entire series.