Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 333, 457, 545 & 576

About

A living legend from the Spanish piano scene, Josep Colom presents Mozart’s music in a radical way: with Colom’s own interludes between movements that play with motifs or anticipate ideas, new ornamentation, transformations, all in all evoking the art of improvisation from the time of Mozart, this album brings four piano sonatas from the Austrian composer as never before heard. From the last of his piano sonatas, the full of counterpoint D major K. 576, to the dramatic C minor K. 457 Sonata, going though the delightful B flat major sonata K. 333 and the “easy” C major sonata K. 545, Josep Colom reaches with this album new heights, in a fascinating reading of Mozart’s masterpieces.

Tech Info
Format
SACD & download versions
Original format
DSD256 (11.2MHz)
Year
2024
Recording date
April 3-5, 2023
Location
Auditorio de Zaragoza, Sala Mozart, Zaragoza, Spain
Equipment
Sonodore LDM54 & RCM402, Schoeps microphones; Merging Horus microphone preamplifier and AD/DA converter; Pyramix Workstation; Hifiman headphones; Dutch & Dutch 8c speakers
Catalogue number
EUD-SACD-2408 (SACD version)
EUD-DR-2408 (download version)
Barcode
8436551171166 (SACD version)
8436551171173 (download version)