[ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 26 August 2022
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Spanning the length of his mature career and documenting stylistic reinvention as well as emotional change, Mozart's piano sonatas and variations occupy a fundamental position within the keyboard repertory. Here they are performed by one of the composer's best-known interpreters; crisp in detail and wide-ranging in mood, Daniel Barenboim's readings are among the most lauded in recording history. As well as the sonatas and variations Warners have added a selection of Rondos and Minuets and other piano works
"His crispness of detail and clarity of partwriting and texture are everywhere admirable, his sheer nimbleness and dexterity are often a joy, and there is no suspicion that he is ever using precision or lapidary elegance to miniaturize or prettify the music: there is plenty of fire and expressiveness here, a real comprehension of the stature of such big works as the Fantasia and Sonata, K475 and 457, and a sustained concentration in some of the more profound slow movements that gives a fine sense both of bar-by-bar discovery and of a measured unfolding, unhurried progress towards a clearly perceived destination." (Gramophone)
Piano Sonatas 1-18 (Complete)
Fantasia in C minor, K475
Fantasia for Piano in D Minor, K. 397
Rondo No. 1 in D Major, K. 485
Rondo No. 3 in A Minor, K. 511
Minuet in D major, K355
Adagio in B minor, K540
Eine kleine Gigue, K. 574
Minuet in G major, K1
Mozart: Minuet in F major, K2
Allegro in B flat major, K3
Minuetto in F major, K4
Minuetto in F major, K5
Allegro in C, KV. 9a
Piano Piece in F Major, K. 33b
2 Minuets, K. 61g: No. 2 in C Major
8 Variations on Graaf's "Laat ons juichen" in G Major, K. 24
7 Variations on "Willem van Nassau" in D Major, K. 25
6 Variations on Salieri's "Mio caro adone" in G Major, K. 180
Variations on Fischer's Minuet in C Major, K. 179
12 Variations on Baudron's "Je suis Lindor" in E-Flat Major, K. 354
Variations (12) on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' in C major, K265
12 Variations on "La belle Françoise" in E-Flat Major, K. 353
9 Variations on Dezède's "Lison dormait" in C Major, K. 264
8 Variations on Grétry's "Dieu d'amour" in F Major, K. 352
6 Variations on Paisiello's "Salve tu, Domine" in F Major, K. 398
10 Variations on Gluck's "Unser dummer Pöbel meint" in G Major, K. 455
12 Variations on an Allegretto in B-Flat Major, K. 500
8 Variations on Schack's "Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding" in F Major, K. 613