Search - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Reine Gianoli :: Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Complete)

These live recordings were made between 1947 and 1955. The legendary French pianist Reine Gianoli (1915-1979) studied with Alfred Cortot and Yves Nat. Throughout her concerts career she appeared with leading orchestras with such conductors as Paul Paray, Felix Weingartner, George Enescu, Hermann Scherchen, Louis Auriacombe, Milan Horvat, and Georges Sebastian, and in recitals with Pablo Casals, Pierre Fournier, George Enescu, and Edwin Fischer. Gianoli was featured several times in performances at the Strasbourg and Lucerne Festivals, and she made numerous recordings for the Westminster, BAM, and Ades labels. In 1947 she was appointed professor of piano at the �cole Normale de Musique in Paris. Mozart was the first great composer to prefer the piano over the harpsichord, and his enthusiasm shows. These represent the largest body of great concerted piano music by any composer, and Mozart's highest overall achievement in instrumental music. The first eight have their youthful charms, but it is with No. 9, written when Mozart was twenty-one, that he hits his stride. It is perhaps a bit unusual that the most famous of the set is No. 20, rather than the seven that come after it. Regardless of individual merits, all the piano concertos are significant and this is one of the best instances in music collecting where a box set is a desirable purchase. These monumental recordings in the Legendary Treasures series have been re-mastered in excellent twenty-bit DLC® sound.