The "piano carré organisé" is an instrument of which only a few examples exist, few enough that nobody has devised a consistent English translation of the rather strange term ("organized square piano"). There are mechanical flute clocks and a glass harmonica. Second, the album is issued, via the Harmonia Mundi label, by the Musée de la Musique Stradivari at the Philharmonie de Paris as part of a series designed to showcase some of the more unusual items in the museum's collection. They range from the seldom-played church sonatas for organ and orchestra, written for Salzburg, to out-and-out odd items like solfège exercises written by Mozart for his wife, Constanze. First, although it is not easy to find rarities in the oeuvre of a composer as extensively documented as Mozart, there are some, and a good-sized group is collected here. This charming release by the ensemble Les Surprises and its director and keyboardist, Louis-Noëk Bestion de Camboulas, has multiple purposes.
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