It is difficult, if not impossible, to place ourselves in the society of the 1780’s and to hear Mozart’s striking innovations the way they did. As Mozart himself said of his piano concertos from the same period, “They contain passages from which connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction, but are written in such a way that the less learned cannot fail to be pleased without knowing why.” ...It was the genius of Mozart that his mature sonatas for violin and piano plumbed depths of expression hitherto unknown to the genre...The inspired performances of Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin make our amazement all the greater. Phil Muse READ MORE