MOZART Piano Sonatas (David Fung)
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Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Steinway & Sons
Magazine Review Date: AW2019
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 58
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: STNS30107
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Sonata for Piano No. 5 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Fung, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Sonata for Piano No. 4 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Fung, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Sonata for Piano No. 2 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Fung, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Sonata for Piano No. 17 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Fung, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
Author: Michelle Assay
His broader characterisation is no more persuasive, though admittedly not for want of trying. There is an unnecessary forward movement in the opening Adagio of the E flat major Sonata, for instance, making it sound rushed and void of the serenity that Mitsuko Uchida, for one, conveys with every phrase, while the following Menuetto suffers from lack of delicacy and subtlety. If such interventionism is supposed to represent an alternative approach to Mozart, Fung does not make a convincing case for it, not even in the late B flat major Sonata, with all its enigmatic complexities. And why should anyone choose to remove all the lyricism from the heartbreakingly beautiful slow movement of the F major Sonata, K280? I found that I only regained my trust in the magic of this music when I returned to Uchida’s unselfconscious poetry.
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