Robert Levin Lecture on Mozarts personal forte piano, ECM Records

ECM New Series releases the first complete recording of W. A. Mozarts piano sonatas on the composers own fortepiano (Anton Walter, 1782). This comprehensive, 7CD boxed set also comprises unfinished fragments by the Austrian composer, here completed by American pianist and Mozartscholar 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 100page booklet featuring an extensive essay on the sonatas by Mozarteumdirector and Mozartexpert Ulrich Leisinger as well as a performers note by Levin, manuscriptscores and more. With the aim of a most authentic delivery, the entirety of the sonatas are performed on Mozarts own fortepiano, whose limited width of roughly 100 cm combined with numerous other particular constructionrelated br, br,