After the first volume entirely dedicated to Mozart (CHAN 20233) designed around the Fantasy in C minor KV 475, in this second work (CHAN 20350) Federico Colli has further deepened his knowledge of the much-loved composer from Salzburg, and the key work of the album is certainly the Sonata in A major KV 331.
He continues here his personal exploration of the music of Mozart opening his programme with the Adagio in B minor KV 540, from 1788, composed toward the end of Mozart’s short life. The only piece on the album not to involve variation form, this Adagio instead adopts sonata form, and is an extremely rare case in Mozart’s output.
The two sets of variations that follow (from the seventeen sets that Mozart composed) use a similar approach in their method of constructing variations on the theme- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in the first instance, and Gluck’s smash hit Les Hommes pieusement (or Unser dummer Pöbel meint) in the second.
Federico Colli concludes his programme with the rather extraordinary Sonata in A major KV 331. Instead of the expected sonata form, the first movement is a theme with (six) variations. Following the second movement (a minuet and trio), Mozart finishes with a rondo- arguably one of his most famous pieces: "Alla turca".

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