MOZART

Complete Piano Sonatas

CD1

Sonata No. 1 in C K279

1 I. Allegro

2 II. Andante

3 III. Allegro

Sonata No.2 in F K280

4 I. Allegro assai

5 II. Adagio

6 III. Presto

Sonata No.3 in B flat K281

7 I. Allegro

8 II. Andante amoroso

9 II. Rondeau; Allegro

Sonata No.4 in E flat K282

10 I. Adagio

11 II. Menuetto

12 III. Allegro

Sonata No.5 in G K283

13. I. Allegro

14 II. Andante

15 III. Presto

CD2

Sonata No.6 in D K284

1 I. Allegro

2 II. Rondeau en polonaise;

Andante

3 III. Andante (Theme & Variations)

Sonata No.7 in C K309

4 I. Allegro con spirito

5 II. Andante un poco adagio

6 III.Rondeau;

Allegretto grazioso

Sonata No.9 in A minor K310

7 I. Allegro maestoso

8 II. Andante cantabile con

espressione

9 III. Presto

10 Rondo in D K485

CD3

Sonata No.8 in D K311

1 I. Allegro con spirito

2 II. Andante con espressione

3 III. Rondeau; Allegro

Sonata No.10 in C K330

4 I. Allegro moderato

5 II. Andante cantabile

6 III.Allegretto

Sonata No.11 in A K331

7 I. Andante grazioso

8 II. Menuetto

9 III. Alla Turca: Allegretto

10 Rondo in A minor K511

CD4

Sonata No.12 in F K332

1 I. Allegro

2 II. Adagio

3 III. Allegro assai

Sonata No.13 in B flat K333

4 I. Allegro

5 II. Andante cantabile

6 III. Allegretto grazioso

7 Fantasia in C minor K475

Sonata No.14 in C minor K457

8 I. Allegro molto

9 II. Adagio

10 III. Allegro assai

CD5

Sonata No.15 in F K533 & 494

1 I. Allegro

2 II. Andante

3 III. Rondeau; Allegretto

Sonata No.16 in C K545

4 I. Allegro

5 II. Andante

6 III. Rondo

Sonata No.17 in B flat K570

7 I. Allegro

8 II. Adagio

9 III. Allegretto

Sonata No.18 in D K576

10 I. Allegro

11 II. Adagio

12 III. Allegretto

13 Fantasia in D minor K397

Maria João Pires

The Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires has long been associated with the music of Mozart. Her delicacy of touch, vibrancy of phrasing and sense of fantasy mark her out as one of the elect who can touch his keyboard music without coarsening or simplifying it.

She has made two complete cycles of the sonatas; reissued here is the first one, from the days in the 1970s when she first appeared on the international scene and won over listeners with a graceful purity of approach that left more famous names trailing in her wake. The later cycle brought added refinement, but anyone who is captivated by this still undervalued corpus – too difficult for beginners, yet scorned by many professionals in search of gaudier glories – will want to hear this set.

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