Mozart - Piano Sonatas Vol.3
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0613
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 27th March 2020
Contents
Works
Adagio in B minor, K540Gigue in G major, K574
Piano Sonata no.10 in C major, K330
Piano Sonata no.11 in A major, K331
Piano Sonata no.18 in D major, K576
Artists
Peter Donohoe (piano)About
Although likely composed as teaching materials, the sibling Sonatas nos. 10 (K330) and 11 (K331) eloquently push their intended student-players with considerable technical challenges that point to Mozart’s own development as a composer.
The C major Sonata no.10 opens in an unabashedly didactic frame of mind before blossoming into a rich and satisfying work, by turns playfully intimate, operatic and always testing the abilities of soloist and piano.
As Christopher Morley notes in his informative booklet notes, the Sonata no.11 in A major, with its tradition-defying structure, seems “more like a suite than a conventional sonata”. Opening with variations on Rechte Lebensart (‘The right way of living’), a song from southern Germany where Mozart’s father Leopold had his roots, it ends with the effervescent, ever-popular ‘Rondo alla turca’.
Interspersing the sonatas, the K574 Gigue pays homage to Bach and echoes the finale to Mozart’s own Symphony no.40 while the K540 Adagio is, says Morley, “one of the most inwardly personal of Mozart’s compositions”.
This new release follows critical acclaim for Volume 1 (SOMMCD0191) including the accolades of MusicWeb International’s Recording of the Year and BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Month which declared: “It was high time someone blew the cobwebs off this still under-appreciated repertoire, and Donohoe is clearly the person to do it”.
Musical Opinion described Donohoe in Volume 2 (SOMMCD0198) as “an ideal interpreter”, adding “no finer accounts of these still neglected masterpieces will have been offered to the public”.
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