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Mozart - Complete Piano Sonatas
Our Price: £21.95 (£18.68 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 6
Genre: Instrumental
Artist(s): Alexei Lubimov (fortepiano)
Release Date: 12th May 2008
More Details on Mozart - Complete Piano Sonatas
Little known in the west at the time of these recordings (1990-91), Russian Alexei Lubimov used three modern reproduction fortepianos for the recording, each corresponding as closely as possible to the instrument Mozart himself played at particular periods.
"For the last nine sonatas Lubimov has chosen an exact replica by Christopher Clarke of a fortepiano by Anton Walter - - one of the most attractive and characterful fortepianos I have heard, with its silvery, never jangly, treble, mellow, sonorous middle register and light, leathery bass…
The refinements of colouring, articulation and nuance unique to the fortepiano are imaginatively exploited by Lubimov, who strikes me as a player of uncommon sensibility.... Lubimov's passagework is fluent and even, never mechanical in its brilliance; and his articulation throughout is as crisp and pointed as one could wish… this is notably fine Mozart playing, subtle, alive and affectionate…" - Gramophone
"Alexei Lubimov's slow movements are distinguished by what is far and away the best ornamentation - the most creative and most faithful to period sources - yet to be heard on Mozart recordings… his decorations in the minor episode, and in the slow movement of K.570, are exquisite." - New York Times
"For the last nine sonatas Lubimov has chosen an exact replica by Christopher Clarke of a fortepiano by Anton Walter - - one of the most attractive and characterful fortepianos I have heard, with its silvery, never jangly, treble, mellow, sonorous middle register and light, leathery bass…
The refinements of colouring, articulation and nuance unique to the fortepiano are imaginatively exploited by Lubimov, who strikes me as a player of uncommon sensibility.... Lubimov's passagework is fluent and even, never mechanical in its brilliance; and his articulation throughout is as crisp and pointed as one could wish… this is notably fine Mozart playing, subtle, alive and affectionate…" - Gramophone
"Alexei Lubimov's slow movements are distinguished by what is far and away the best ornamentation - the most creative and most faithful to period sources - yet to be heard on Mozart recordings… his decorations in the minor episode, and in the slow movement of K.570, are exquisite." - New York Times
