Concerto pour piano Numéro 23 / Symphonie Numéro 40 / Ouverture Don Giovanni

Description

Julien Chauvin meets one of the great harpsichordists and fortepianists of our time, a prominent interpreter of Mozart's concertos, Andreas Staier. He presents his vision of the 23rd concerto and its famous adagio, "one of the most heartbreaking slow movements ever written by Mozart... Performers often tend to take it too slowly, certainly thinking that this accentuates the tragic aspect, but with Julien Chauvin, we spontaneously agreed on a slightly faster tempo, which respects the basic pulse of this piece with a Sicilian rhythm. When you start with the right tempo, it's amazing to see how the entire discourse organizes itself perfectly, in a very logical and simple way," says Staier, who plays here a magnificent instrument made by Christoph Kern after a Walter fortepiano from 1790, the great maker of Mozart's time. Also on the program is the 40th symphony where, says Julien Chauvin, "Mozart explores types of writing that he pushes to their most extreme limits. This is the case with the finale, which features disjointed dissonant intervals at the beginning of the development that, if looked at more closely, give us the complete chromatic scale (except for G, the key of the symphony). The twelve-tone series was thus born!"