COMPOSERS: Mozart
LABELS: Virgin Veritas
WORKS: Violin Sonatas
PERFORMER: Schröder (violin), Orkis (fortepiano)
CATALOGUE NO: 693 2182
The refreshingly different ‘period’ string/keyboard balance makes this CD collectable, and if the sometimes gauche early works are unglamorised, these forceful players steer an ideal course between gravity and joyousness in the virtuosic final sonata. Michael Church