Christian Blackshaw | Classical review

St George's, BristolThis recital, balancing Mozart's two final sonatas with earlier works, completed Christian Blackshaw's cycle of the composer's piano sonatas at St George's. Ordering the sonatas into a satisfying cycle is in itself quite tricky, not least since Mozart wrote only one minor-key sonata (C minor, K457) and, just as in his operas, the emotional colouring of the minor mode is an important element in the overall makeup of the works.This was very much the case in the first movement...

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