Thomas Beijer, Nicolas van Poucke – Mozart: Sonatas for four hands (2022) [FLAC 24bit/176,4kHz]

Thomas Beijer, Nicolas van Poucke – Mozart: Sonatas for four hands (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 01:06:17 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Classical
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For years, Beijer and Van Poucke have performed repertoire by Mozart and Schubert: their first recital took place at Amsterdam’s Bethaniënklooster in 2012 and other concerts have followed regularly since. During the corona pandemic, the pianists decided to turn their focus to some of Mozart’s four-handed sonatas. They did a number of performances with them and recorded three sonatas for this album: KV 358, KV 497 and KV 521.”We really love Mozart for its playfulness and humour: it’s a combination of human lyricism with all the crazy stuff,” Beijer says. “For me, it was once the first composer who really speaks to you. His music touches you and is full of life,” Van Poucke adds. “You can see references to his other work in his quatre-mains compositions,” the pianists note. “For instance, in KV 521 there are references to the Jupiter Symphony and you hear echoes from Don Giovanni in KV 497. KV 358 is a truly youthful work: a short and whimsical divertimento.”

“For us, this album is the document of a deep friendship. With this production, we really went to the limit in terms of the quality of the performance and the recording technique. The main thing was that the music had to keep sounding spontaneous and alive,” Beijer and Van Poucke conclude.

Tracklist:

01. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in B Major, KV 358: I. Allegro (04:15)
02. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in B Major, KV 358: II. Adagio (05:53)
03. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in B Major, KV 358: III. Molto presto (03:08)
04. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in F Major, KV 497: I. Adagio – Allegro di molto (09:16)
05. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in F Major, KV 497: II. Andante (11:21)
06. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in F Major, KV 497: III. Allegro (08:02)
07. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in C Major, KV 521: I. Allegro (09:21)
08. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in C Major, KV 521: II. Andante (07:27)
09. Thomas Beijer and Nicolas van Poucke – Sonata for Piano Four-Hands in C Major, KV 521: III. Allegretto (07:30)

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