Andreas Staier - Mozart: Piano Sonatas (2012)

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Title: Mozart: Piano Sonatas
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 02:12:23
Total Size: 423 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
01. Suite C-Dur K399 (385i) - 1. Ouverture [0:01:27.74]
02. Suite C-Dur K399 (385i) - 2. Allegro [0:02:13.13]
03. Suite C-Dur K399 (385i) - 3. Allemande [0:04:16.17]
04. Suite C-Dur K399 (385i) - 4. Courante [0:01:49.31]
05. Suite C-Dur K399 (385i) - 5. Sarabande [0:02:28.59]
06. Gigue G-Dur K574 [0:01:24.31]
07. Klaviersonate Es-Dur K282 (189g) - 1. Adagio [0:06:14.03]
08. Klaviersonate Es-Dur K282 (189g) - 2. Menuetto I & II [0:03:21.46]
09. Klaviersonate Es-Dur K282 (189g) - 3. Allegro [0:03:07.02]
10. Zehn Variationen über "Unser dummer Pöbel meint" (Gluck) G-Dur K455 [0:12:52.70]
11. Fantasie c-Moll K475 [0:12:40.17]
12. Klaviersonate C-Moll K457 - 1. Allegro [0:07:20.46]
13. Klaviersonate C-Moll K457 - 2. Adagio [0:07:10.55]
14. Klaviersonate C-Moll K457 - 3. Allegro assai [0:04:31.11]

CD 2:
01. Sonate C-Dur K330 - 1. Allegro moderato [0:06:27.04]
02. Sonate C-Dur K330 - 2. Andante Cantabile [0:05:48.38]
03. Sonate C-Dur K330 - 3. Allegretto [0:05:29.08]
04. Sonate A-Dur K331 - 1. Andante Grazioso [0:12:37.16]
05. Sonate A-Dur K331 - 2. MenuettoTrio [0:06:08.08]
06. Sonate A-Dur K331 - 3. Alla turca Allegretto [0:03:38.72]
07. Sonate F-Dur K332 - 1. Allegro [0:09:47.33]
08. Sonate F-Dur K332 - 2. Adagio [0:04:15.20]
09. Sonate F-Dur K332 - 3. Allegro assai [0:07:16.65]

Performers:
Andreas Staier - fortepiano [copy after Anton Walter, c.1785]

Behind every Mozart solo piano composition is the human voice, and many interpreters understandably build their interpretations from the melody line down. By contrast, fortepianist Andreas Staier generates rhythmic and dramatic momentum by letting his left hand lead, so to speak. His firm, sharply delineated bass lines in the C minor sonata's outer movements and the E-flat sonata's Allegro finale evoke a symphonic rather than operatic aura that proves far more stimulating than Paul Badura-Skoda's equally rigorous yet less vibrant fortepiano traversals. I also applaud Staier's decision to take the E-flat sonata's central Menuets at a brisk one-beat-to-a-bar and especially appreciate his delicious accenting of the Eine Kleine Gigue's dizzying cross-rhythms. Staier uses the gigue to close the unfinished C major Suite K. 399, and offers a convincing completion to the Sarabande that Mozart broke off after six measures. The G major Variations on a theme by Gluck are admirably fluent, straightforward, and free from the archness that Ronald Brautigam sometimes displays. -- Jed Distler

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