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Composer
Mozart

Artist
Alfred Brendel

Catalogue Number:

475 6199 6 PSA

International Release Date:

April 2005

Audio clips:

I. Allegro

TRACKLISTING

Mozart Sonata in B flat major K281
1 I. Allegro
2 II. Andante amoroso
3 III. Rondeau: Allegro

Mozart Sonata in E flat major K282
4 I. Adagio
5 II. Menuetto I- Menuetto II – Menuetto I
6 III. Allegro

Mozart Sonata in D major K 576
7 I. Allegro
8 II. Adagio
9 III. Allegretto
9 III. Allegretto

10 Mozart Fantasia in C minor K.396

ABOUT THIS SACD

The 3rd disc in Alfred Brendel’s recent Mozart Sonata series.

Two early sonatas from 1775 contrast with the last sonata Mozart completed (in 1789). Brendel’s first recordings of K.281 and K.576. The intriguing C minor Fantasia in a revised completion by Alfred Brendel.

At the time of his 70th Birthday in 2001 Alfred Brendel announced that he was again turning his attention to the piano sonatas of Mozart.

On this, his latest Philips release, Brendel brings decades of Mozartian experience to two of the earliest sonatas as well as the last sonata that Mozart was to complete.

The two early sonatas (K.281 and K.282), written when Mozart was nineteen, are full of youthful brilliance and warmth and were favourite performance pieces as he travelled around the courts of Europe.

In contrast K.576 is Mozart’s last sonata and, from a technical point of view, possibly his most challenging. It is fitting that it ends in a simple, understated style ; this most dazzling of all Mozart’s sonata finales fades gently away into the distance.

The disc ends with something of a rarity – the imposing C minor Fantasia which remained unfinished at the time of Mozart’s tragically early death. This intriguing fragment, which includes a brief accompaniment for violin, was completed after Mozart’s death by Maximilliam Stadler. For this recording, however, Alfred Brendel has allowed himself to modify Stadler’s rather static and bass-heavy realisation of the violin part.

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