in Piano International (Jul, 2016)
Kristian Bezuidenhout has signed off his highly regarded survey of Mozart’s solo keyboard works with a flourish: a double- CD that features two late and two early sonatas, three sets of variations and a miscellany of brief or incomplete pieces. As on most previous volumes, he plays a Paul McNulty copy of an 1805 Anton Walter fortepiano, with a brisk action, lightly chiming tone and unequal temperament that all contribute to the discs’ engaging sound-world.
The late sonatas, the popular K545, ‘for beginners’, and the ebullient yet technically challenging K576, are the major works here, and each elicits a fine performance from Bezuidenhout. As John Irving observes in his CD notes, …
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