ERC100 Mozart - Les Sonates pour piano et violin par Lili Kraus et Willi Boskovsky
31 October 2023 by The Electric Recording Co.
In 1954 renowned Hungarian-born pianist Lili Kraus signed a contract with distinguished French label Les Discophiles Français in conjunction with the Hayden Society of Boston to record the entire piano works of Mozart including the concertos and chamber music, all to be released during the 1956 bicentennial celebration of Mozart’s birth. The recording project was a major undertaking and the demands on Kraus were enormous, but by June she had produced an amazing number of Mozart recordings and was then joined by Willi Boskovsky to record 27 of the Mozart-piano violin sonatas that are featured here. A few months later from October through to December cellist Nicolaus Hubner joined with Kraus and Boskovsky to record all of Mozarts trios, but unfortunately before Kraus finished...
