Mozart poses formidable challenges for modern pianists. Late 18th-century Viennese pianos resemble our contemporary instruments only on the most basic mechanical level. The way the hammers are ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Not since Lili Kraus more than half a century ago has a pianist tackled Mozart’s 18 piano sonatas with such insight, ...

Anyone looking for a window into Mozart's soul should look no further than his vast output of sonatas. Over his short life, he composed 18 numbered piano sonatas, sonatas for four hands, 36 violin ...

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Lots of pianists give Mozart's piano sonatas the kid gloves treatment. They want to respect the lighter tonal character of the instruments of Mozart's time and avoid projecting Beethovenian ...