On Thurs­day I shared a new record­ing of the first move­ment of Mozart’s D Major Sonata for piano 4‑hands, and warned promised that the lat­er move­ments would be forth­com­ing.

Can you keep a secret?

The sec­ond move­ment of that sonata is, I think, one of the most gor­geous piano move­ments ever writ­ten, so I could­n’t stop myself—I stayed up late that night (aban­don­ing my poor hus­band in the process) to get it record­ed and ready to post.  But I did­n’t want to steal the thun­der of the snow-melt Mozart, so I looked ahead to what will (at least accord­ing to Thurs­day’s fore­cast) be a rainy Mon­day morn­ing, and sched­uled this announce­ment to pro­vide a bit of a bright spot that day.

If the fore­cast is wrong and/or you live in a place that isn’t rainy on Mon­day and/or you don’t lis­ten to this post until after Mon­day… well, the best-laid plans.…

Any­way.  I give you the sec­ond move­ment of the Mozart sonata, now includ­ed in the “Piano Cov­ers” sec­tion of my Demo Record­ings page.  Enjoy, my friends.  The effer­ves­cent “Alle­gro molto” finale will be com­ing soon!