Mozart à Paris 1778 Arnaud De Pasquale

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310/300d:
• 1 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310/300d: I. Allegro maestoso 10:17
• 2 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310/300d: II. Andante cantabile con espressione 06:03
• 3 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310/300d: III. Presto 03:23
• Antoine Albanese (1728 - 1803): La Soirée du Palais-royal, Op. 9:
• 4 Albanese: La Soirée du Palais-royal, Op. 9: No. 10, Dans les erreurs d’un songe 05:21
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304/300c:
• 5 Mozart: Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304/300c: I. Allegro 08:47
• 6 Mozart: Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304/300c: II. Tempo di Menuetto 05:15
• Antoine Albanese: Romance de Rosemonde:
• 7 Albanese: Romance de Rosemonde 04:47
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 9 Variations on "Lison dormait", K. 264/315d:
• 8 Mozart: 9 Variations on "Lison dormait", K. 264/315d 18:00
• 6 Variations on "Au bord d'une fontaine", K. 360/374b:
• 9 Mozart: 6 Variations on "Au bord d'une fontaine", K. 360/374b 17:56
• Total Runtime 01:19:49

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Mozart was 22 when he travelled to Paris in 1778, accompanied by his mother. Although he did not achieve the success he had hoped for, his visit to Paris was a major turning point in his personal life and artistic development. Marked by the disillusionment that led him to despise the Parisian public and by the tragedy of losing his mother, his sonatas for pianoforte are tinged with an intense gravity, mirroring the inner turmoil experienced by the young prodigy. At the same time, the castrato Albanese charmed the capital with his Romances, which were popular with the public and from which Mozart drew some of his inspiration.

Arnaud De Pasquale, at the keyboard of a superb replica of a 1749 Silbermann pianoforte, takes us back to the Paris of the 1770s, where musical practice was nothing but effervescent, and invites us, with grace and sensitivity, into the tormented intimacy of the genius.

Perrine Devillers, soprano
Arnaud de Pasquale, piano
Jerome van Waerbeke, violin

Arnaud De Pasquale
grew up in a Baroque musical environment and began studying the harpsichord at the age of five with Dominique Ferran at the Poitiers Conservatoire. He then entered the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in the classes of Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou. He completed his training under the guidance of Pierre Hantaï, Blandine Verlet, Élisabeth Joyé, Skip Sempé, Laurent Stewart and Huguette Grémy-Chauliac. After the launching of his career, he played in several ensembles such as Pygmalion, conducted by Raphaël Pichon, the Ensemble Correspondances, under Sébastien Daucé, and Philippe Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale. As a soloist on the harpsichord as well as the organ, fortepiano and clavichord, he is regularly invited to give recitals in France, Europe and Mexico (Château d’Assas, Théâtre de Caen, Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, London Festival of Baroque Music, etc.). In addition to his recording activity with ensembles, he has recorded several albums for Alpha, including two with the violist Lucile Boulanger, all of which have received critical acclaim – Diapason Découverte, Choc de Classica, IRR-Outstanding, ffff by Télérama. He also received a Diapason Découverte in 2013 for the first album recorded by La Sainte Folie Fantastique (My Precious Manuscript), an ensemble of which he is a founding member. He has recently recorded harpsichord music from the time of Louis XIII for the label Château de Versailles Spectacles.

His keen interest in the diversity of historical organs has led him to undertake a world tour of organs: a long-term venture in partnership with the Éditions des Abbesses for the label harmonia mundi, and whose first album, devoted to Sicily, opens the first pages of a travel notebook full of promise.

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