Only two of the four works on this release by Piotr Anderszewski are actually designated as fantasies, but the mercurial Polish pianist has an original premise here: it is the idea of the fantasy rather than the genre as such that is explored. For Mozart and Schumann, Anderszewski writes, "the cruel resistance of the blank page feels nonexistent, disregarded. And therein lies for me an important, precious connection between Mozart and Schumann: an unobstructed directness to their music, in which the purity of intention ...
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Only two of the four works on this release by Piotr Anderszewski are actually designated as fantasies, but the mercurial Polish pianist has an original premise here: it is the idea of the fantasy rather than the genre as such that is explored. For Mozart and Schumann, Anderszewski writes, "the cruel resistance of the blank page feels nonexistent, disregarded. And therein lies for me an important, precious connection between Mozart and Schumann: an unobstructed directness to their music, in which the purity of intention remains intact." There's certainly room to debate that statement in the abstract, but the fact is that here it makes for a novel and persuasively coherent recital. Anderszewski begins with the Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K. 475, in an unusually seductive, murky mood. This work is often joined to the Piano Sonata in C minor, K. 457, but Anderszewski makes an especially close tie here, beginning without a pause and seemingly letting the fantasy seep into his reading of the sonata. The...
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