Classical Music sacd Round Up 18 - Mozart completed

 

One area where popular music and classical have things in common is sadly their composers and lyrists die leaving incomplete works or especially in popular music recordings too which tends to pose the question just what should we do with them?

For a long time the short answer would be nothing and yet some artists and composers are so popular that after death things are attributed to them that were not in an attempt to offer new material to satisfy demand.

This interesting release from a few weeks ago is more in the vein of what if we completed the score the composer had started and record it and here Timothy Jones, deputy director of the Royal Academy of Music has done just that keeping within the conventions of 1780 and this forms a bookend if you like to Ms Podger's 8 sacd set of Violin Sonatas from a few years back.

In this recording she is joined by Christopher Glynn on fortepiano, the original form of the modern concert piano and the results are highly enjoyable.