With this release, fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout brings to a close his universally acclaimed Mozart Keyboard Music cycle. The selections on these final volumes range from the most famous Piano Sonata K545 to the lesser-known Fragments K312 and K400. This two disc set completes a collection that is now the benchmark standard for these works.
Reviews:
Find yourself pulled in to an interpretation born of searching musical intelligence. Bezuidenhout plumbs depths rarely reached, affirming too that any score is a dead letter - unless nuances, inflections and aspects of emotional rhetoric that cannot be notated are discerned, felt and expressed.
– Gramophone
Articulation sparkles and ornaments are neat; slow movements sing like arias and he has fun giving weight to the Rondo themes; virtuosity buzzes under the surface but never becomes the focal point. On his modern keyboard – a Czech copy of an 1805 Viennese instrument – the sound is sweet, nutty and declamatory. Above all, Bezuidenhout knows how to make a fortepiano sing.
