Regular readers may have noticed that I am quite fond of Mozart violin sonatas, having first been introduced to them by Lupu & Goldberg back in the 1970's and having heard selections from time to time since.
Thinking this morning that it would be good to hear some more, I asked Bachtrack, a usually reliable way of finding performances of something of interest. But nothing doing, with the few such sonatas that it turns up being overseas. Why are they not done more? I can't be the only person who likes them, with the Lupu & Goldberg versions being very much alive and well at Amazon and elsewhere.
There is the slight niggle that I have not really mastered the Bachtrack search facility. It knows about composers (in this case, Mozart) and it knows about countries (in this case, UK), but it does not seem to know about violin sonatas except as a bit of free text, which turns up all kinds of stuff, including various violin sonatas by the wrong composer in concerts in the UK which involve, inter alia, a work or two by the right composer.
I shall try again in due course and hopefully I will turn something up, DIY at home being no longer as satisfying as it once was. Even when played by Frankl & Pauk (courtesy of Oxfam, Tavistock), recordings which attract very favourable comment out on the Internet.
Reference 1: https://bachtrack.com/.
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