Piano Sonatas (Selections: Nos. 8, 11, 15)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Recordings
Top Choice
Murray Perahia
1991Gil's top choice for this selection (Sonatas No. 8, 11, and 15). A 'wonderful interpreter' of classical repertoire, Perahia has 'beautiful grace and touch and tone and balance and excellent finger work.' 'Beautifully recorded.'
Also Worth Hearing
Dinu Lipatti
1947A 'famous old recording' of the dramatic Sonata No. 8 (K. 310). Lipatti 'really brings that intensity to it,' playing in a 'wonderfully urgent and dramatic, but also lyrical and graceful' way.
Label: Phillips (Great Pianist series) · 1947