Margaret Batjer

Salvatore Accardo, Margaret Batjer, Toby Hoffman, Cynthia Phelps, Rocco Filippini – W.A. MOZART KV 174, 593 (2022)
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Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.

At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.

Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.
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Salvatore Accardo, Margaret Batjer, Toby Hoffman, Cynthia Phelps, Rocco Filippini – Mozart: String quintets KV 515, KV 614 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:17 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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