Snow-melt Mozart

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written by David

Musician, educator, husband, cat dad, cantankerous introvert-slash-wet-blanket. And I bake a mean chocolate-chip cookie.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

It’s bright and sun­ny here in Cen­tral Penn­syl­va­nia, and Snow­maged­don is clear­ly los­ing its grip on the ter­rain.  Some­thing about the sparkle and trick­le of melt­ing snow makes Mozart piano music seem “just right” today, so I’m delight­ed to announce that I’ve uploaded my sec­ond demo record­ing: the first move­ment of Mozart’s Sonata in D for piano 4‑hands.

(In case you’re keep­ing track: yes, I still have two hands.  In order to record this duet I set a metronome in Garage­Band and record­ed both “play­ers” of this duet—first the Sec­on­do, then the Pri­mo.  Hap­pi­ly there’s not too much ped­al work in the piece, and the tem­po is con­stant through­out, so there was very lit­tle tech­ni­cal fid­dling to do to get it togeth­er.)

I’ve added the track to the “Piano Cov­ers” sec­tion of my Demo Record­ings page, and it also appears below.  The sec­ond and third move­ments of the Sonata will fol­low with­in the next few weeks.  Enjoy!

Sonata 4‑Hands (K. 381) movt. 1: Allegro

by Wolf­gang Amadeus Mozart

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