Pianist Jeffrey Biegel and E1 Entertainment have launched a new cycle of Wolfgang Mozart's 17 piano sonatas with this volume, Mozart: The Complete Sonatas for Piano, Vol. 1, which contains sonatas 1-9 on three discs. Upon considering it, experienced listeners might wonder, "What can he do that Lili Kraus, Glenn Gould, Mitsuko Uchida, and so on and so forth didn't do?" One major wrinkle with this edition is that Biegel elects to vary the repeats through some lightly applied improvisation, a practice still in force in Mozart ...
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Pianist Jeffrey Biegel and E1 Entertainment have launched a new cycle of Wolfgang Mozart's 17 piano sonatas with this volume, Mozart: The Complete Sonatas for Piano, Vol. 1, which contains sonatas 1-9 on three discs. Upon considering it, experienced listeners might wonder, "What can he do that Lili Kraus, Glenn Gould, Mitsuko Uchida, and so on and so forth didn't do?" One major wrinkle with this edition is that Biegel elects to vary the repeats through some lightly applied improvisation, a practice still in force in Mozart's time and considered standard long before; the very idea of slavish adherence to the letter of a composer's score down to exact repeats is a conceit that dates from no earlier than the late romantic, and possibly modern period. In regard to Biegel's repeats, they are suitably invisible; they never step out of the pocket in terms of Mozart's general style and on the contrary spring from a comprehensive understanding of that style. On the other hand, the varied repeats are not the...
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