Mozart Matures: 1780’s Piano Works
Navona, 2022
8/10
Listen to Mozart Matures: 1780’s Piano Works
The incredibly talented pianist Roberta Rust interprets the work of Mozart here with an unparalleled amount of attention to detail, where every keystroke is carefully performed and absorbed with much intrigue.
“Fantasy In D Minor” opens the listen with flowing and agile keys that emits much beauty and awe in their warm progressions that highlights intimacy and exploration, and “Sonata No. 12 In F Major” displays Rust’s incredible dexterity with swift and diverse playing that’s full of playfulness.
In the middle, “Adagio In B Minor” possesses a more tense landscape of emotive prowess, while “Eine Kleine Gigue In G Major” offers a bright and very melodic execution that you can’t help but admire.
The final 2 tracks are among the best, where “Fantasy In C Minor” is a bit haunting in a hypnotic fashion that manipulates the keys in fascinating ways, and “Rondo In A Minor” exits the listen with flawless piano playing that’s quite meticulous and universally enjoyable.
Rust purposely avoided some of Mozart’s most known work for this affair, and instead concentrates on structure, technicality and harmonic demeanor, and it makes for a Mozart experience you’re not going to hear anywhere else.
Travels well with: Hyejin Kim- Miroirs; Monika Gurak- Scenes From A Life