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This CD presents for the first time recordings made on the Leopold-Mozart Violin and the Stein Fortepiano from the collection of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. The following is a review of the Album appearing in "Ensemble" Magazine (Germany), 2005.
"Music instruments are as good as their players. The idea to "re-awaken" the historical music instruments from the collection of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum is a good one, but one needs musicians who are have the capacity to convince listeners - even without the aid of such prominent instruments (Leopold Mozart violine and the museum's Stein fortepiano). For musicians Maria Bader-Kubizek and Richard Fuller this is definitely the case. The selected works unfold as lively and imaginativedialogues: brilliant but unpretentious. One highpoint of the recording is the finale of the sonata in D-Major KV 306, a fast and joyous rondo replete with changing meters and a most impressive cadenza. The performers play to all the points and miss no opportunity to create a witty drama of this unique movement. The otherwise often over-romantisized e-minor sonata comes across in this recording with noble transparency. (Oliver Buslau)