Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas

Daniel-Ben Pienaar, piano

Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
CD 1
Five Sonatas K279-K283 (1775)
CD 2
The Dürnitz Sonata K284 (1775) / Two Mannheim Sonatas K309 and K311 (1777) / A Paris Sonata K310 (1778)
CD 3
Four Sonatas K330-K333 (1783?)
CD 4
Fantasy and Sonata K475 and K457 (1784) / Sonata K533 and K494 (1788 and 1786)
CD 5
Three last sonatas K545, K570 and K576 (1788-9)

South African-born, London resident Daniel-Ben Pienaar is a completist. Recent surveys, both on the concert platform and in the recording studio, include Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin's Complete Waltzes, Schubert's Complete Sonatas, and the complete keyboard works by Orlando Gibbons. He arrives on Avie with another major project in tow: the complete Piano Sonatas by Mozart. An active recitalist and chamber musician, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Pienaar has a number of critically acclaimed independent releases under his belt, but this recording represents and uncommon synergy between artist, repertoire and production values. In Gramophone Award-winning producer Jonathan Freeman-Atwood, Pienaar found a special simpatico which he found "profoundly enabling", resulting in a creative recording process specific in relation to the music in hand.
Pienaar presents the works chronologically over five CDs, illustrating Mozart's compositional trajectory which represents all of the major stylistic and emotional shifts in his mature career, with the earliest dating from his twentieth year, through his Viennese period, and the final works which were written towards the end of his all too brief life.

critical acclaim
"... no doubt that this South African-born pianist is a thinking virtuoso ... In the company of such contrasting practitioners as Edwin Fischer, Samuel Feinberg, Sviatoslav Richter and Glenn Gould, he seems determined to leave
his own mark" - BBC Music Magazine
"Daniel-Ben Pienaar's performances are quite simply stunning. The instrument he plays matters much less than his musicianship, which is evident at every turn." - Gramophone
"A kaleidoscope of colours and textures in performances that combined the dramatic with the ethereal, the monumental with the intimate" - International Piano

summary
South African-born, London resident Daniel-Ben Pienaar makes his Avie debut with an ambitious recording project: the complete Piano Sonatas by Mozart.

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