Mozart
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin
Rachel Podger (violin), Gary Cooper (fortepiano, harpsichord)
Channel Classics CCSBOX7824 (8-discs)
Between Bach’s great solo violin works and Beethoven’s celebrated Violin Sonatas, Mozart’s 36 Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin are often overlooked. When we think of Mozart the performer, we imagine him at the keyboard – but from his earliest years he’d also played the violin, and perhaps it takes performances as imaginative as these
