Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV310 KV331 Fantasias KV397 [Import]

Wilhelm Kempff (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2006)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Dg Imports
• ASIN: B000E0LBAY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,513 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Piano Sonata No.11 In A, K.331 -"Alla Turca"

2. Fantasia In D Minor, K.397

3. Fantasia In C Minor, K.475

4. Piano Sonata No.8 In A Minor, K.310

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At last I see it again...after 23 years., April 14, 2006

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Saihung Lo (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV310 KV331 Fantasias KV397 (Audio CD)

I have been waiting for this CD for 23 years...since 1983 while keeping the tape version of it all these years. DG released a tape of the same recording in 1981(?) Kempff made few recordings of Mozart's piano sonatas. This is the only one I know existed. This morning I was listening to Lapatti's playing of the same sonata, and I thought, his playing has the qulality (beyond my description ) that comes out of the artist's heart, so is Kempff's ( which I have not listened to for many years because the tape is no longer playable.) How I wish I could listen to Kempff's again. And here is the CD. Mozart must be pleased that his sonata is played as such by Kempff, Lapatti, Schnabel and Haebler.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing pianism, the essence of Mozart, May 11, 2009

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Pavel (Prague, Czech Republic) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV310 KV331 Fantasias KV397 (Audio CD)

As the other reviewer mentioned, this recording was not in-print for a while. And yet it is an amazing disc. I love Brendel's Mozart, I think Maria Joăo Pires' integral (at DG as well) represents the most accomplished and natural Mozart. I think Friedrich Gulda's Mozart from the recently resuscitated master-tapes is wonderful in their straightforward and yet nuanced approach. The Kempff's Mozart interpretations collected on this disc are irreplaceable in their musical singularity. The recorded sound is wonderful. Grab it before it disappears from the catalog again!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snarky, April 4, 2011

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toronto - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV310 KV331 Fantasias KV397 (Audio CD)

great, classic recording. For some reason, they repackaged it with some really snarky notes from someone called Jeremy Siepmann who doesn't ever seem to have heard of interpretation.