Rondo K511 - Bagatelles opus 126 - Sonate D 894

Description

Menahem Pressler, a living legend of the piano, has brought together three Viennese scores in this “anniversary” album. In this recital, the tradition is Viennese. The city plays a major role here, as it would later do in Leipzig for Mendelssohn and Schumann. There is nothing more beautiful in his eyes than this Mozart Rondo. This music contains both sadness and joy. These are feelings that the performer must have experienced. This piece, which is among the most personal pages Mozart ever composed, is recorded here for the first time by the Master. By pairing it with Beethoven’s Bagatelles, he offers a spiritual link with Mozart. In Schubert’s Sonata in G major, Menahem Pressler reflects at length on the way to convey this free dance, which also refers to song, to the art of the Lied. “Music bears witness to the existence of our civilization and without it, the world would be much poorer.”