Fantasy after Mozart

"The fortepiano (a historical keyboard instrument that precedes the modern grand piano) holds a very special place in my heart: it’s a much quieter and more sensitive instrument, and my relationship with it is a lot more introspective and intimate. I wrote this piece just as we were coming out of the COVID-19 lockdown, during a time that was intensely lonely but also generative for me. Whenever I bring a piece of piano music to the fortepiano, it reflects back to me new sounds and colours, and responds to the lightest of touches. As I was working on the slow movement to Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 at the fortepiano, I heard new possibilities for (re)harmonisation and followed them. Where those possibilities led is the piece you hear on this album."