Mozart: Piano Works, Vol. 2

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
August 22, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • PERFORMER
      Federico Colli
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 22, 2025
    • UPC
      0095115235027
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20350
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

International sensation Federico Colli continues his personal exploration of the music of Mozart with this second volume of works for solo piano. Colli opens his programme with the Adagio in B minor, K. 540, from 1788, toward the end of Mozart's short life. The only piece on the album not to involve variation form, this Adagio instead adopts sonata form, and is an extremely rare case in Mozart's output of it's chosen key. The two sets of variations that follow (from the seventeen sets that Mozart composed) use a similar approach in their method of constructing variations on the theme - 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' in the first instance, and Gluck's smash hit 'Les Hommes pieusement' (or 'Unser dummer Pobel meint') in the second. Colli concludes his programme with the rather extraordinary Sonata in A major, K. 311. Instead of the expected sonata form, the first movement is a theme with (six) variations. Following the second movement (a minuet and trio), Mozart finishes with a rondo - arguably one of his most famous pieces, the 'Alla turca'.