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Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas / Maria Joao Pires
Release Date: 08/30/2011
Label: Brilliant Classics Catalog #: 94271
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires
Number of Discs: 5
Recorded in: Stereo
Works on This Recording
1. Sonata for Piano no 9 in D major, K 311 (284c) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1777; Mannheim, Germany
2. Sonata for Piano no 8 in A minor, K 310 (300d) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1778; Paris, France
3. Sonata for Piano no 7 in C major, K 309 (284b) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1777; Mannheim, Germany
4. Sonata for Piano no 6 in D major, K 284 (205b) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
5. Sonata for Piano no 5 in G major, K 283 (189h) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
6. Sonata for Piano no 4 in E flat major, K 282 (189g) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
7. Sonata for Piano no 3 in B flat major, K 281 (189f) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
8. Sonata for Piano no 2 in F major, K 280 (189e) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
9. Sonata for Piano no 18 in D major, K 576 "Hunt" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1789; Vienna, Austria
10. Sonata for Piano no 17 in B flat major, K 570 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1789; Vienna, Austria
11. Sonata for Piano no 16 in C major, K 545 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1788; Vienna, Austria
12. Sonata for Piano no 15 in F major, K 533 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1788; Vienna, Austria
13. Sonata for Piano no 14 in C minor, K 457 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1784; Vienna, Austria
14. Sonata for Piano no 13 in B flat major, K 333 (315c) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1783-1784; Linz, Austria
15. Sonata for Piano no 12 in F major, K 332 (300k) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1781-1783; Vienna, Austria
16. Sonata for Piano no 11 in A major, K 331 (300i): 3rd movement, Rondo alla turca by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1781-1783; Vienna, Austria
17. Sonata for Piano no 11 in A major, K 331 (300i) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1781-1783; Vienna, Austria
18. Sonata for Piano no 10 in C major, K 330 (300h) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1781-1783
19. Sonata for Piano no 1 in C major, K 279 (189d) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Munich, Germany
20. Rondo for Piano no 3 in A minor, K 511 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1787; Vienna, Austria
21. Rondo for Piano no 1 in D major, K 485 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
22. Fantasy for Piano in C minor, K 475 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1785; Vienna, Austria
23. Fantasia for Piano in D minor, K 397 (385g) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1782; Vienna, Austria
Notes and Editorial Reviews
The Portuguese pianist Maria Joa?o 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 sim- plifying 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.
OTHER INFORMATION:
• ‘Pires has always been something of a Mozar t specialist, and her playing is tasteful and cleanly articulated, the lyrical melodies sensitively shaped, the passage work fluent and even. Nothing she does is ever harsh or graceless.' Gramophone, July 1990.
