Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas / Kristian Bezuidenhout

This boxed set collects all 9 discs in fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout universally acclaimed Mozart Keyboard Music cycle. Praised by Gramophone as "interpretations of today" and BBC Music Magazine for bringing "out all the drama and intensity," this survey is now the benchmark standard for these works.



REVIEWS:

Hearing Mozart’s sonatas played so brilliantly by Bezuidenhout on a fortepiano leaves rich scope for unexpected discoveries; a superb addition to the series.

– Gramophone (reviewing previously released Vol. 7)

Bezuidenhout’s approach to Mozart is uninhibited, unafraid, and unabashed—this is Mozart playing which is simply delightful.

– Fanfare (reviewing previously released Vols. 5 & 6)

The piano Bezuidenhout uses is another superb Paul McNulty replica, this one from 2009. Like the instruments used in the two earlier recordings, it is based on an original by Anton Walter & Sohn, but a slightly later vintage (1805). To say that this is state-of-the-art Mozart playing is only meaningful with the qualification that there are at most three or four pianists in the world today capable of anything remotely similar. I know of no player on a modern Steinway or Bösendorfer, in fact, who could pull off an F-Major Sonata of greater charm or vivacity, or inflected with more color or nuance.

– Fanfare (reviewing previously released Vol. 3)