Mozart: Piano Sonatas, D Minor Fantasia

1	Piano Sonata in F major,
2	Piano Sonata in F major,
3	Piano Sonata in F major,
4	Fantasia for piano in D m
5	Piano Sonata No. 8 in A m
6	Piano Sonata No. 8 in A m
7	Piano Sonata No. 8 in A m
8	Piano Sonata No. 9 in D m
9	Piano Sonata No. 9 in D m
10	Piano Sonata No. 9 in D m
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, D Minor Fantasia
1.	Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533/494: I. Allegro 8:16
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
2.	Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533/494: II. Andante 9:41
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
3.	Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533/494: III. Rondo: Allegretto 6:38
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
4.	Fantasia for piano in D minor (fragment), K. 397 (K. 385g) 5:19
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
5.	Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 (K. 300d): I. Allegro maestoso 6:17
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
6.	Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 (K. 300d): II. Andante cantabile con espressione 9:40
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
7.	Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 (K. 300d): III. Presto 3:22
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel
8.	Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311 (K. 284c) 16:56
	Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
	Performed by Alfred Brendel

Barnes & Noble

Reverence is a difficult mood to project in performance, as it usually ends up sounding more like expressive aloofness. Yet Alfred Brendel somehow pulls it off, bringing these Mozart piano sonatas vividly to life while conveying a real sense of awed respect and astonishment. Every superfluous emotion seems stripped away in these unflinchingly direct yet deftly refined interpretations. The highlight of this program is the great A Minor Sonata, K. 310, one of the most intense of the composer's early works, written around the time of his mother's death. Brendel's earlier recording was overtly dramatic; here, the drama is internalized, yet the effect is equally powerful. But even in a comparatively "straightforward" movement, like the unruffled Andante of K. 311 in D, Brendel finds a surprising depth of feeling. Required listening for Mozarteans. Andrew Farach-Colton

All Music Guide

Unless the audience is made up of sentimentalists or modernists, Mozart recitals don't get any better than this. Alfred Brendel's Mozart is clear and objective, absolutely translucent, and technically impeccable. But everyone prays differently and Brendel's devotion to the integrity of the music is his path to the sublime. The radiant trill in the recapitulation of the Andante con espressione of the "Sonata in D major," the abysmal collapse at the center of the Adagio in the "Fantasie in D minor," the simple bliss of the Rondo of the "Sonata in F major": all of these are transcendentally beautiful because they are extraordinarily lucid. Brendel plays the "Sonata in A minor" as if it were a block of marble and he was sculpting a Pietà with severity and greatest sympathy. Philips puts Brendel's piano in the room with the listener. James Leonard

Gramophone

Enjoy the light and shade, the richness of allusion and the sensibility of an exceptional Mozartian as he lets the composer tell him what to do. Stephen Plaistow