BBC Music Magazine
November 2022
Recording of the Week

Robert Levin (fortepiano)

The first complete recording of W.A. Mozarts piano sonatas on the composers own fortepiano (Anton Walter, 1782). This comprehensive, 7-CD boxed set also comprises unfinished fragments by the Austrian composer, here completed by American pianist and Mozart-scholar Robert Levin in consideration of Mozarts idioms and the compositional mannerisms of his era. Robert Levins interpretations of the piano sonatas, too, are informed by the performance practice customs of the First Viennese School, including improvised elements and decorations in the repeats. The recordings are accompanied by a 100-page booklet featuring an extensive essay on the sonatas by Mozarteum-director and Mozart-expert Ulrich Leisinger as well as a performers note by Levin, manuscript-scores and more