Tomes/Höbarth – review

Perth Concert HallSonatas for piano and violin: the clue is in the syntax. Mozart, himself a brilliant pianist, built on a chamber music tradition in which string instruments regularly played a support role – even well into the 19th century, the piano was often considered the default solo instrument, not the default accompaniment.With that in mind, Scottish pianist Susan Tomes and Austrian violinist Erich Höbarth have put together a four-part series exploring Mozart "from the piano out", alte...

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