Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Allegro
4. Allegro assai
5. Adagio
6. Presto
7. Allegro
8. Andante amoroso
9. Rondeau, Allegro
10. Adagio
11. Menuetto I & II
12. Allegro
13. Allegro
14. Andante
15. Presto

Disc 2:

1. Allegro
2. Rondeau en Polonaise, Andante
3. Thema und 12 Variationen
4. Allegro con spirito
5. Andante un poco Adagio
6. Rondeau, Allegretto grazioso
7. Allegro maestoso
8. Andante cantabile con espressione
9. Presto

Disc 3:

1. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante con espressione
3. Rondeau, Allegro
4. Allegro moderato
5. Andante cantabile
6. Allegretto
7. Theme, Andante grazioso
8. Menuetto & Trio
9. Alla Turca, Allegretto
10. Allegro
11. Adagio
12. Allegro assai

Disc 4:

1. Allegro
2. Andante cantabile
3. Allegretto grazioso
4. Allegro
5. Adagio
6. Molto allegro

Disc 5:

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Rondo. Allegretto (K. 494)
4. Allegro
5. Andante
6. Rondo, Allegretto
7. Allegro
8. Adagio
9. Allegretto
10. Allegro
11. Adagio
12. Allegretto

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69493 in Music
• Released on: 2000-11-07
• Number of discs: 8
• Formats: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording reissued

Customer Reviews

Five stars from a Mozart piano sonata lover
As an amateur pianist and Mozart lover, I own the complete piano sonatas by three different artists: Uchida, Maria Joao Pires, and Barenboim. I have listened to each set hundreds of times, and after buying Barenboim, side by side. For me, this interpretation is so far above the others (though much more so compared to Uchida than to Joao Pires), that I have only listened to Barenboim for the past year. One reviewer below points out that the 3 CDs of piano variations are not necessary, and I agree. However, the price is very reasonable, and I simply omitted the last 3 CDs when I loaded this into my iPOD.
You will treasure this performance each time you listen.

like sparkling mineral water
It is something near to a cleansing experience to listen through the Mozart piano repertoire as performed by Daniel Barenboim.

For starters, Mozart achieves his sparest, cleanest, most limpid lines when writing for solo piano. Then comes Daniel Barenboim, whose reading of Mozart is crisply and unemotionally classical. Not for him the drawn-out keyboard soliloquy. On the contrary, Barenboim gives us Mozart, only Mozart, and nothing but Mozart, clean and shimmering as sparkling mineral water.

This is not to say that Barenboim as pianist is unfeeling. On the contrary, the Fantasia in C Minor - to choose just one example with almost random lack of care - is quite moving. But not with a flourish. Rather, with almost sinewy restraint. The presentation represents a fine grasp of the master composer, nurtured with discipline across the length and breadth of the voluminous sonatas.

Indeed, the sheer volume of the Mozart piano sonatas is intimidating. It is astonishing to imagine one man having mastered it as Barenboim has. EMI Classics has done us the favor of collecting these two gentlemen's asynchronic collaboration in one set, affordable at that.

If Mozart is a musician for the ages and Barenboim a performer who left a formidable imprint on the twentieth century, their collaboration as represented in these recordings is a watershed that will need to be referenced by students of classical piano for at least another hundred years, or until people can only remember as far back as the Dixie Chicks.

Buy Barenboim on Mozart before that happens, and so stick your thumb in the dike against the evil day.

Masterpiece
If this is not one of the great all time recordings of Mozart Piano Sonatas, I do not know what is! Bravo, Mr. Barenboim, Bravo and Bravo and Bravo.

Yes, sometimes the music seems almost to race, but the overall performance is heavenly, a formidable light touch!

I have never heard anything so compelling. The birds sing in my garden when I play it with the window open. I am sure it is played as Mozart intended.

8 CDs in this box, in modest cardboard envelopes, what treasure they contain! At less than fifty dollars, this is a great bargain.