This is a nearly complete recording of Mozart's solo keyboard music, including an entire disc of small variation sets and the like but omitting the incomplete but fascinating Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533. That work is often completed with the similar-in-spirit Rondo in F major, K. 494, but perhaps that was less settled in 1954, when Lili Kraus made these recordings. It's too bad, because one wonders what her interpretation of K. 533 would have been like -- in many of Mozart's sonatas, Kraus creates a sharp ...
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This is a nearly complete recording of Mozart's solo keyboard music, including an entire disc of small variation sets and the like but omitting the incomplete but fascinating Piano Sonata in F major, K. 533. That work is often completed with the similar-in-spirit Rondo in F major, K. 494, but perhaps that was less settled in 1954, when Lili Kraus made these recordings. It's too bad, because one wonders what her interpretation of K. 533 would have been like -- in many of Mozart's sonatas, Kraus creates a sharp differentiation between tuneful music and scalar or arpeggiated passagework, but that highly contrapuntal sonata is in a class by itself and doesn't structurally revolve around that distinction. Kraus, of Hungarian birth, studied piano with Bartók and launched her career in the 1920s. On tour in Indonesia during World War II, she was seized by the Japanese and held for two years in a concentration camp. After the war she came to the U.S., living and teaching in Fort Worth, TX, for many years. She...
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Very Good. Size: 5x5x0; 5-disc set with 19-page English-language booklet in original sleeves and flip-top case; case shows only light shelf-wear; tiny ding to booklet; discs are mint/near mint; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated, we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment.
