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Title: Mozart: Piano Works, Vol. 2
Artist: Federico Colli
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 0095115235027
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-08-22
Number of Discs: 1

International sensation Federico Colli continues his personal exploration of the music of Mozart with this second volume of works for solo piano. Colli opens his programme with the Adagio in B minor, K. 540, from 1788, toward the end of Mozart's short life. The only piece on the album not to involve variation form, this Adagio instead adopts sonata form, and is an extremely rare case in Mozart's output of it's chosen key. The two sets of variations that follow (from the seventeen sets that Mozart composed) use a similar approach in their method of constructing variations on the theme - 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' in the first instance, and Gluck's smash hit 'Les Hommes pieusement' (or 'Unser dummer Pobel meint') in the second. Colli concludes his programme with the rather extraordinary Sonata in A major, K. 311. Instead of the expected sonata form, the first movement is a theme with (six) variations. Following the second movement (a minuet and trio), Mozart finishes with a rondo - arguably one of his most famous pieces, the 'Alla turca'.

Tracks:
1.1 Adagio, KV 540 in B minor
1.2 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Tema -
1.3 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione I -
1.4 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione II -
1.5 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione III -
1.6 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione IV -
1.7 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione V -
1.8 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione VI -
1.9 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione VII -
1.10 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione VIII. Minore -
1.11 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione IX. Maggiore -
1.12 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione X -
1.13 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione XI. Adagio -
1.14 Twelve Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman', KV 265 in C major~Variazione XII. Allegro
1.15 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Tema. Allegretto -
1.16 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione I -
1.17 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione II -
1.18 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione III -
1.19 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione IV -
1.20 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione V -
1.21 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione VI -
1.22 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione VII -
1.23 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione VIII -
1.24 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione IX. Adagio -
1.25 Ten Variations on 'Les Hommes pieusement', KV 455 in G major~Variazione X. Allegro - Cadenza - [ ]
1.26 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Tema. Andante grazioso -
1.27 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Variazione I -
1.28 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Variazione II -
1.29 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Variazione III -
1.30 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Variazione IV -
1.31 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Variazione V. Adagio -
1.32 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Variazione VI. Allegro
1.33 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto da capo
1.34 Sonata, KV 331 in A major~Alla turca. Allegretto - Coda