Mozart
K331, K332, K333

Almost, almost, given the respect I have for Him, I don't dare to review him, well, let's say I'm writing some thoughts, let's not call it a review... After listening to so much light music, after Rock after Pop and all other possible genres and classifications, listening to this album is like the taste of the Eucharist wafer after eating every delightful mess, it’s like making love between silk sheets after trekking in Nepal, it's like finding oneself in the center of Milan and looking up at the sky.

These three piano sonatas by Mozart leave me in awe every time I listen to them. The K331 begins melancholic in its Andante grazioso, continues introspective and mysterious in the Menuetto, and ends magnificent and enigmatic in the famous Allegretto, better known as Alla turca. Here, it is understood and clear why Mozart, 250 years after his birth, is the most played composer in theaters around the world. The more you listen to it, the more you discover new nuances, realizing you are facing the work of a genius. If it's true that every composition is a gift given to the artist in the form of inspiration, well, it seems that Mozart received such a great gift here that he was intimidated by it. There is a clear forcefulness in the coda of this sonata that closes the Allegretto in a somewhat obvious manner for a genius like Mozart; compositional haste and a desire to finish maybe? We are not given to know, but I would be truly curious to hear Amadeus's opinions on this. The K332 opens with the bouncing Allegro, continues with the somber Adagio, and the Allegro assai with its very fast and prickly scales. Of the K333, I absolutely love the Allegretto grazioso with its elegant progression.

There are things that it's a crime not to appreciate: women, Macintosh, Champagne, cheese with pears, etc. etc. I would also include the music of Mozart. Andras Schiff, the performer, knows how to do justice to Mozart's music by embroidering the notes as if they were lace, punctuating the staccatos as if they were pins, in short, masterful. The album is well recorded and it really feels like having a pianist in front of us and being in a noble salon of the mid-eighteenth century. Close your eyes and dream, Mozart plays for you and will purify you.