Penguin Rosettes, Mozart (composer)

By common consent, Mitsuko Uchida is among the leading Mozart pianists of today, and her recorded series of the piano sonatas won critical acclaim as it appeared and finally Gramophone Awards... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Brendel's incomparable 1974 version [of K491] with Neville Marriner and the ASMF still ranks among the finest ever recorded. Brendel's unassailable mastery is attended by his laser-like intellectual... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2026More…

This is certainly the most desirable version using modern instruments to appear since Solti's second recording in 1990. That said, its characteristics are rather nearer William Christie's 1995... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Menuhin's set of The Abduction from the Seraglio in English makes the performance sparkle from first to last, favouring brisk, well-lifted Allegros, so that the fun of the piece comes over vividly...[the... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 4 out of 4 starsMore…

Savall sets some brisk tempos, particularly for the slow movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, but they're convincing. …it's vivid playing from everyone, well defined in outline and responding... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Listen to the start of the great Sinfonia Concertante, here replete with an energy which doesn't preclude sensitivity of phrasing or detail of instrumental colour. …Fischer and Nikolic emerge... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…