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Mostly Mozart (3/4)

Italian violinist and Mozart specialist Francesca Dego plays three contrasting sonatas by Mozart from the composer's early and later career.

Award-winning young Italian violinist Francesca Dego brings an all-Mozart programme of sonatas to the Perth Concert Hall, featuring three contrasting sonatas. The short and simple Sonatas in G and A were written while visiting Mannheim, in south-west Germany, a highly influential centre for innovation and the development of the orchestra. The Sonata K454 written six years later in Vienna is a more substantial proposition. According to a story told by Constanze, his wife, Mozart did not leave himself time to write down the piano part of K454 before its performance in Vienna and so performed with a blank sheet of paper on the stand - much to the admiration of Emperor Joseph II - according to the story.

Mozart: Sonata in G, K301
Mozart: Sonata in A, K305
Mozart: Sonata in B flat, K454

Francesca Dego, violin
Francesca Leonardi, piano

Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell

57 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 Feb 2023 13:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in G, K301

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Francesca Leonardi.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in A, K305

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Francesca Leonardi.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in B flat, K454

    Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Francesca Leonardi.
  • Nicolò Paganini

    Paganini: Capricci Opus 1 No. 1 In E Andante

    Performer: Francesca Dego.
    • 24 Capricci.
    • Universal Music Italia srL..
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Carnival of the Animals - Fossils

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Ayla Sahin. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • DECCA.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 14 Apr 2022 13:00
  • Thu 16 Feb 2023 13:00