MOZART: Sonatas For Piano Four Hands [CD de audio] Elena Modena & Ilario Gregoletto and Mozart

As one of the great virtuoso pianists of his time, Mozart composed a wealth of piano concertos and sonatas that rank among his most famous instrumental works. Not so well known, however, are the duet compositions he wrote for the instrument and to which this CD is dedicated: together with the large body of arranged orchestral music that publishers released, they provide evidence of the healthy scene of domestic music-making in existence during the Classical period.First to be featured on the compilation is the Sonata in C, KV19d a composition whose authorship has been disputed but which has nevertheless become part of the traditional canon of Mozarts piano duets. Moving on to KV381 and KV358 (which both date from the early 1770s), we encounter two sonatas whose galant sound world is reminiscent of the roughly contemporary Salzburg Symphonies. Their allusion to orchestral colouring is hardly surprising given the fuller sonority afforded by two players instead of one, and there is little