SYMPHONIES IN D MAJOR AND E-FLAT MAJOR – KEYBOARD SONATA – CONCERTO FOR KEYBOARD AND STRINGS – CONCERTO FOR KEYBOARD AND OBBLIGATO INSTRUMENTS

Beyond the “vexata questio” about Andrea Luchesi’s intellectual attributions and credits to Beethoven, as well as more generally in the genesis of the Wiener Klassik itself (present plagiarisms of Mozart, Haydn, etc.), what is certain is that the composer from the Veneto region of Lucca’s origins has long been wrongly underestimated by music historiography. In CD 2069, released in 2011, Roberto Plano had recorded Andrea Luchesi’s keyboard sonatas and rondos for the first time on a modern Steinway. In this second release, in addition to the Symphonies in D major and E-flat major masterfully played by the Busoni Orchestra, Roberto Plano performs, with a Fazioli F278 grand piano, the Concerto for keyboard and strings in F major, the Sonata for keyboard in F major, and the Concerto for harpsichord/organ and strings in F major-the latter of great significance. In 1771, in fact, Luchesi gave a copy of this score to the young W. A. Mozart, who liked it so much that he specially wrote a cadenza for it, which he discovered thanks precisely to Roberto Plano’s research.