Klavierwerke I

Track Listings

1. Son in C, KV 545: Allegro

2. Son in C, KV 545: Andante

3. Son in C, KV 545: Rondo

4. Son in G, KV 283: Allegro

5. Son in G, KV 283: Andante

6. Son in G, KV 283: Presto

7. Fant in d, KV 397

8. Son in E flat, KV 282: Adagio

9. Son in E flat, KV 282: Menuet 1 & 2

10. Son in E flat, KV 282: Allegro

11. Son in C, KV 330: Allegro Moderato

12. Son in C, KV 330: Andante Cantabile

13. Son in C, KV 330: Allegretto

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
A native of Washington state, Richard Fuller has pursued his musical career in Vienna for the past eighteen years. He is one of the few who has sought to address himself exclusively to the interpretive potential of the fortepiano - the sensitivity and delicacy of an earlier keyboard culture - and who succeeds in convincingly projecting these qualities to the listener. For those listeners who think a fortepiano is "just an old piano," Mr. Fuller brings to life the keyboard works of Mozart with his elegant articultion and fluid touch. His Mozart is arguably without peer.

Tracks:

Son in C, KV 545: Allegro
Son in C, KV 545: Andante
Son in C, KV 545: Rondo
Son in G, KV 283: Allegro
Son in G, KV 283: Andante
Son in G, KV 283: Presto
Fant in d, KV 397
Son in E flat, KV 282: Adagio
Son in E flat, KV 282: Menuet 1 & 2
Son in E flat, KV 282: Allegro
Son in C, KV 330: Allegro Moderato
Son in C, KV 330: Andante Cantabile
Son in C, KV 330: Allegretto

Album Description

A native of Washington state, Richard Fuller has pursued his musical career in Vienna for the past eighteen years. He is one of the few who has sought to address himself exclusively to the interpretive potential of the fortepiano - the sensitivity and delicacy of an earlier keyboard culture - and who succeeds in convincingly projecting these qualities to the listener. For those listeners who think a fortepiano is "just an old piano," Mr. Fuller brings to life the keyboard works of Mozart with his elegant articultion and fluid touch. His Mozart is arguably without peer.

Customer Reviews:

Mozart Sonatas on Fortepiano.......2006-08-14

I was not particularly prepared to like this release, largely because I seem to have a blind (deaf?) spot regarding the sound of the instrument involved, the fortepiano. Too often, for me, the sound of the fortepiano sounds perilously close to that of a toy piano tinkling away when what I'd prefer is the strong sound of the modern pianoforte. Still, listening to this CD I was charmed by the sound which is actually quite appealing without being quaint. That is to say, there is strength to the tone even though one would never mistake it for that of a modern Steinway.

But more important is the playing of Richard Fuller. Fuller is an American fortepianist and clavichordist who specializes in the music of the Viennese Classical and early Romantic periods. He ably demonstrates the wide range of expression and dynamic of the fortepiano, adding discreet ornaments and lightly elaborated cadences as presumably Mozart himself or other late 18th-century instrumentalists would have done. The result of both his approach and the sound of the instrument is that these sonatas which, in the words of Anthony Newman, are 'miniaturized' when played on a modern grand piano, emerge as subtle but strong works. Even the first sonata -- the ever-familiar Sonata in C, K.545 -- is heard as the potent work it truly is, not the miniature as performed by beginning piano students. The performances of the four sonatas, plus the fine Fantasy in D Minor -- one of Mozart's towering keyboard works -- are both light and intense. Don't ask me how Fuller manages that seeming contradiction.

This recording was originally made in 1988 and released on an obscure German label. It and two subsequent Fuller Mozart Klavierwerk CDs were remastered and re-released by Palatine Records in 2001. It's worth hearing.

Scott Morrison

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1. Son in C, KV 545: Allegro
2. Son in C, KV 545: Andante
3. Son in C, KV 545: Rondo
4. Son in G, KV 283: Allegro
5. Son in G, KV 283: Andante
6. Son in G, KV 283: Presto
7. Fant in d, KV 397
8. Son in E flat, KV 282: Adagio
9. Son in E flat, KV 282: Menuet 1 & 2
10. Son in E flat, KV 282: Allegro
11. Son in C, KV 330: Allegro Moderato
12. Son in C, KV 330: Andante Cantabile
13. Son in C, KV 330: Allegretto