The warm tone and sonorous sounds of the historic piano are sustained through this morning’s Vox Nostra. With the 270th birth anniversary of Muzio Clementi, composer and piano developer and builder, on this day in 1752 and Mozart’s own birthday following on a few days later, it’s a perfect Sunday to celebrate the fortepiano in all its forms. The Sunday Sonata features Mozart’s piano concerto in C major KV 387b, premiered this week in Vienna back in 1783, and we’ll get to hear the sounds of early pianos from the medieval clavisimbalum all the way to historic pianos played by the Schumanns, Brahms, and Liszt.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 26th January, 7am-10am
