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An Afternoon in van Swieten's Salon

Keiko Shichijo

Label
Challenge Classics
Catalogue number
CC 720004
EAN / barcode
0608917200041
Release date
3 April 2025
This is plain text, not HTML. According to the user's instructions, I should translate the text while not translating proper names (Keiko Shichijo, Mozart, van Swieten, Bach, Handel). Let me translate this to English, keeping the proper names unchanged: Keiko Shichijo: In 1782, Mozart regularly attended a salon sponsored by the Dutch diplomat van Swieten, where he was introduced to the music of Bach and Handel. This experience led to a change in the composer's own creativity and compositional style, opening his mind to new harmonic structures, contrapuntal techniques and dramatic expression. This album offers a glimpse of the transformation of Mozart's wonderful "musical consciousness". I aim to convey the striking expressivity of the 19th century performance of Mozart's music, while benefiting from the musical creativities from today.

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