Mozart: Piano Sonatas No. 11, 17 & 18

‘It’s a genuine mission to fulfil the task of recording the complete Mozart sonatas. A mission that constantly has me asking questions of myself, and which sometimes has me feeling quite dizzy: can I do it? Am I right to? And yet I feel a literal attraction for these sonatas. They’re an unending source of wonder to me. It’s a joy to record them, and even an inner necessity.’
This is the pianist Menahem Pressler’s second disc for La Dolce Volta. Here we meet a Mozart bathed in total serenity, as if freed from all earthly contingencies and tensions, gently singing of his state of grace, with a wonderfully tender touch.
An interpretation deeply moving in its very simplicity, its sheer tranquil poetry, brimming with love and affection.
Here is a miraculous disc by a humble servant of music at the peak of his inspiration.