Mozart: Prelude & Fugue, K. 394 and Fantasias, K. 396 & 397

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SWR continues to excavate its archives. This example comes from Karlsruhe where Yvonne Loriod visited in 1961 to record a handful of short works by Mozart. Rather than mixing in this pianist with other musicians, the label SWR Music preferred to publish a monograph album, exceptionally short in length, running to a little over 20 minutes of music. A student of Lazare Lévy for piano, of Darius Milhaud for composition and of Olivier Messiaen (who would become her husband) for analysis, Yvonne Loriod received a thorough education which allowed her to undertake a career which would take her to every continent. Though Yvonne Loriod gave her life to the music of her time and in particular to the works of Olivier Messiaen, she still knew her classics, as proved here by her performance of rare works by Mozart, Prelude and fugue K. 394 inspired by Bach and the Fantasies in C Minor and in D Minor which seem to mirror the harmonic searching and general oddness of those by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. © François Hudry/Qobuz