Mozart on the organ
Originally composed for piano and orchestra, this rondo in a new arrangement is not easy to play, but rewarding.
With their processing of the Rondos in D major KV 382 (originally for piano and orchestra, composed in 1782), organist Monika Henking expands the pool of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "organ music" in a welcome way. Her rendition of the charming work (not a rondo in the true sense of the word, but a sequence of variations with the tempo disposition Allegretto grazioso - Adagio - Allegro) reveals the experienced practitioner. For example, "voice crossings" using four-foot registrations in the left hand serve to make certain trills and more complicated passages easier to perform. Alternating pedal registrations in 16-, 8- or 4-foot positions make it possible to preserve special tonal features - "pedal tones" of the horns, for example - of the original.
The technical demands of the approximately ten-minute work are relatively high, but still far removed from those of the "original" works by Mozart - albeit composed for mechanical organs! - Mozart's works demand of a human player. A highly recommendable arrangement that should please players and listeners alike.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rondo in D KV 382, arranged for organ by Monika Henking, D 02 469, € 12.95, Doblinger, Vienna 2014
