Mozart: Complete Clavier Works, Vol. 7

This disc is part of an exhaustive series covering Mozart's keyboard music on period instruments -- not only the fortepiano and harpsichord, but also the less frequently encountered clavichord. As with other discs in the series that feature Mozart's juvenilia, German keyboardist Siegbert Rampe, who augments his historical instruments with such practices as improvised ornaments in repeats, uses the clavichord with delightful effect in most of those works and also in the extremely rare Marche funèbre del Signor Maestro ... Read More

This disc is part of an exhaustive series covering Mozart's keyboard music on period instruments -- not only the fortepiano and harpsichord, but also the less frequently encountered clavichord. As with other discs in the series that feature Mozart's juvenilia, German keyboardist Siegbert Rampe, who augments his historical instruments with such practices as improvised ornaments in repeats, uses the clavichord with delightful effect in most of those works and also in the extremely rare Marche funèbre del Signor Maestro Contrapuncto, K. 451 -- a humorous work despite its title. The Sir Counterpoint Master was Mozart himself, who wrote the tongue-in-cheek march for one of his students, and the clavichord, the studio and home instrument for many musicians (including, for much of his life, Mozart himself), brings out the humor in a way that neither of its larger cousins would have. The other significant feature of this album is the use of a 1771 harpsichord with multiple registers that Mozart seems to... Read Less