A listener glancing at this album in a CD rack or online playlist might easily take it to be an ordinary Mozart recital; the tracklist and notes are conventional enough, at least until one gets to the personal letter to Mozart from pianist Federico Colli. This would be a mistake, as sampling the ten-second pause after the opening of the Fantasia in C minor, K. 475, will immediately demonstrate. Colli's letter argues that he has to approach Mozart from a perspective informed by the revolutions brought after his lifetime by ...
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A listener glancing at this album in a CD rack or online playlist might easily take it to be an ordinary Mozart recital; the tracklist and notes are conventional enough, at least until one gets to the personal letter to Mozart from pianist Federico Colli. This would be a mistake, as sampling the ten-second pause after the opening of the Fantasia in C minor, K. 475, will immediately demonstrate. Colli's letter argues that he has to approach Mozart from a perspective informed by the revolutions brought after his lifetime by Beethoven and other composers, and of course, there are plenty of highly Romantic interpretations of Mozart. This is all well and good, but in the first half of the program, up to the Rondo in D major, K. 485, and the Piano Sonata in B flat major, K. 333, Colli is playing Mozart not from the perspective of Beethoven but from that of, perhaps, Busoni, or even Luciano Berio, with massive distortions of the transmitted musical texts. As long as listeners realize what they are getting...
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