Search - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alfred Brendel :: Mozart: Piano Sonatas K330, K331, K570 / Rondo in A Minor, K511

Mozart Informed by Beethoven and Schubert

John Ellis | Princeton, NJ United States | 08/03/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's the acute consciousness of Brendel that astounds. His conscious attention to each note--or, more precisely, to each phrase--its exact articulation--reminds me most (across cultures)of Miles Davis. Here the depth of Brendel's knowing of Beethoven and Schubert bracingly informs these Mozart sonatas. They lose any hint of the music box. Instead they are movingly expressive. Romantic? Perhaps. Yet with no implied program injected. The engineering is superlative. You have no sense, until the applause that follows the three sonatas, that these have been recorded live. Instead, you marvel that these are all "one takes." Though Brendel is self-effacing, these sonatas sound lived in."

Brandel - always something new to hear

Ron Katz | Herzliya Israel | 04/28/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"When listening to Brandel you always hear something you did not hear before. somehow, he finds those corners, listen to Brandel playes Beethoven piano concerto for example. However, if you do not own any of those sonatas recording , you may wish to know that Mozart can be played with more passion (listen to Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV 283 & 331, etc / Ivo Pogorelich if you wish to hear a "more romantic" Mozart)."

Excellent, Brendel at is best

Licinio Bingre Do Amaral | BRUXELLES Belgium | 03/01/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an excellent CD. Brendel plays Mozart with such an elegance that you just want the CD to go on playing and playing."