Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Mozart: Piano Quartets (Live At Pierre Boulez Saal) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Mozart: Piano Quartets (Live At Pierre Boulez Saal) (2018)
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When he wrote his two unique quartets for piano, violin, alto and cello, in 1785 and 1786 respectively—the era of The Marriage of Figaro—Mozart was brilliantly inaugurating a genre which, much later, would inspire others, and not the least: Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Dvořák and Fauré, Saint-Saëns and Chausson. Not the big crowd then, because it is true that the format causes balance problems, that Mozart has overcome with his usual mastery (the others too, be reassured). Because the risk and the temptation are huge to make it some kind of mini-concerto for piano with three string accompaniments, and the composer took great pain to avoid that: yes, he often sets the piano against the three strings, but the exchange remains balanced and never are the strings only there to only act as support. In this, Mozart is the true precursor. On piano, Daniel Barenboim has surrounded himself with three musicians coming from his famous East-West Divan Orchestra: his son Michael B. on violin, the Russian violist Yulia Deyneka and Persian cellist Kian Soltani, great soloists whose value hasn’t awaited the passing of years to blossom in the light of day. Let’s note that these recordings have been made in a public concert in March 2017.

Tracklist:
1-1. Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 – 1. Allegro (14:35)
1-2. Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 – 2. Andante (07:08)
1-3. Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 – 3. Rondo (Allegro moderato) (07:52)
1-4. Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K. 493 – 1. Allegro (14:41)
1-5. Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K. 493 – 2. Larghetto (12:58)
1-6. Michael Barenboim, Yulia Deyneka, Kian Soltani & Daniel Barenboim – Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K. 493 – 3. Allegretto (09:33)

Personnel:
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Michael Barenboim, violin
Yulia Deyneka, viola
Kian Soltani, cello

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