Mozart : Adagios & Fuguesd’après Bach

   in Early Music Today (Sep, 2014)
The Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin are radiant in this recording. The CD draws attention to Mozart’s interest in the works of Bach, repertoire he regularly encountered at the Vienna home of Baron van Swieten during the early 1780s.

Alongside Mozart’s arrangements for string quartet of four Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, the disc includes one further four- and two five-part arrangements located in the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek. These anonymous collections draw on some of the same Fugues arranged by Mozart, and appeared before any printed edition of Bach’s original work had been produced.

Mozart’s Fuga a due Cembali K.426 (1783) features as well as his own arrangement for strings, Adagio …