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James WoodrowWoodrow - Violin
Alexander Woodrow - Piano
Live concert recording at Bradford Cathedral 15th September 2015

2nd Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBg9ylNtVk

With thanks to Stewart Smith for producing the live recording and the music team at Bradford Cathedral.

Mozart wrote over 30 sonatas for violin and piano. The contribution of the keyboard instrument is very important in these sonatas. Indeed, the first sonatas, written when Mozart was a child, were described on the title page as ‘harpsichord sonatas which may be played with violin accompaniment’.
The Sonata in E minor was written in 1778, while Mozart was in Paris. The sonata has a sui generis status, as it is the only minor key violin and keyboard sonata by Mozart, as well as the only work by the composer to be written in the key of E minor. It has been speculated that the elegiac mood of the sonata is coloured by Mozart learning of the death of his mother, Anna Maria Mozart around the time of its composition. Like other Sonatas from this period of Mozart’s output, the sonata is in two movements.

Image: View of Paris and Notre Dame Cathedral, Jacques Rigaud. Metropolitan Art Museum (public domain image)

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