DR. ERIKA SVANOE, CONDUCTOR - Dr. Erika Svanoe, conductor
Kristian Bezuidenhout 2010 (Photo: Marco Borggreve)
Mozart enthusiasts like me will be sad to see that this installment brings to a close Mr. Bezuidenhout’s revelatory and superb traversal of all Mozart’s keyboard music. What an amazing experience it has been. This two-disc set pairs, like most of the others, early and late, obscure and evergreen. The program includes the sets of Variations K. 352 and K. 573 (Duport), a few sonata movements in completions by Robert Levin, and piano sonatas—among others (discussed below) are the ones in C (K. 279) and D (K. 5
The set opens with the “simple” sonata in C Major, K. 545. As if throwing down a final gauntlet, Bezuidenhout supplies deft and completely appropriate varied reprises in the first movement and an absolutely heavenly, lyrical approach to the slow one—the latter, in particular, gives the music an unexpected depth and expressive character that I have never heard before.
DR. ERIKA SVANOE, CONDUCTOR - Dr. Erika Svanoe, conductor