Customer Reviews

Mozart: Sonatas K. 281, 282, 284, 545

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Shear delight. De Larrocha is utterly amazing, her technique is flawless, and plays mozart in a unique, desireable, and familiar way; a way not pianists can do.
Superbly clean.

The sonata in D gives me chills. Her playing is lovely.

I bought this CD to hear Alicia De Larrocha play Sonata Facile in C as I am trying to learn this sonata by Mozart. Facile it is not....at least for me, but I am trying. La Roccha is superb on the entire selections of sonatas.

If you want to hear the notes Mozart wrote just over two-hundred years ago, then you wont be disappointed.

If you want to feel the passion this music is capable of making you feel then skip this one.

Ms. de Larrocha is simply going through the motions.

I don't know if it is these particular piano sonatas or the playing, but I do not enjoy this disk. I couldn't read the little booklet that comes with the CD before purchasing, but it states "Mozart's keyboard sonatas, now staples of the recital repertory, were not origainally intended for the concert platform. Unlike his piano concertos, whose grand formal designs and viruosic style show clearly that they were destined for public performance, the sonatas reflect a more personal context." These sonatas are some of Mozarts earliest surviving work of this kind. Perhaps a true student of the piano would enjoy this CD.