German historical-instrument specialist Siegbert Rampe has undertaken an ambitious complete cycle of Mozart's keyboard music on instruments that are appropriate not only to the late eighteenth century generally but to specific phases of Mozart's career. His set is somewhat esoteric but consistently interesting for the true Mozartian, who will often hear familiar pieces in entirely new ways. Rampe is part of a current effort to strip Romantic accretions away from Mozart, and this is all to the good. Consider his reading of ...
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German historical-instrument specialist Siegbert Rampe has undertaken an ambitious complete cycle of Mozart's keyboard music on instruments that are appropriate not only to the late eighteenth century generally but to specific phases of Mozart's career. His set is somewhat esoteric but consistently interesting for the true Mozartian, who will often hear familiar pieces in entirely new ways. Rampe is part of a current effort to strip Romantic accretions away from Mozart, and this is all to the good. Consider his reading of the Rondo in A minor, K. 511, which is often given a miserably debilitated feeling thought to correspond with the doomed quality of Mozart's last years. This is dubious, of course -- Mozart, at least until the very last, wasn't planning on dying, and Rampe, playing a modern copy of a Stein fortepiano, convincingly transforms this harmonically absorbing little piece into a vigorous and just slightly melancholy rondo. Another highlight is the little-heard set of Variations for piano on...
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