‘Endless hours of joy and wonder’ is how Angela Hewitt sums up the insights and rewards of playing and recording Mozart’s piano sonatas, and a similar experience awaits listeners to these remarkable accounts, the first release in a complete cycle.

Classical fans rejoice—this double album is the first release in a planned complete cycle of Mozart piano sonatas by Angela Hewitt, and if they’re all as good as this one, we are in for a real treat. Hewitt is on sparkling form, with every note crystal clear thanks to her precise—yet clearly much-enjoyed playing—while she makes the whole thing sound entirely effortless. The quality of the performance is enhanced by Ludger Böckenhoff’s fine recording in the Kulturstiftung Marienmünster, Germany, making Hewitt’s Fazioli piano sound suitably luminous and fabulous.
Andrew Everard in HiFi News & Record Review, March 2023

CD1

Piano Sonata in C major K279 [20’33]
1 Allegro [7’49]
2 Andante [7’22]
3 Allegro [5’22]

Piano Sonata in F major K280 [20’01]
4 Allegro assai [7’25]
5 Adagio [7’47]
6 Presto [4’49]

Piano Sonata in B flat major K281 [18’55]
7 Allegro [7’25]
8 Andante amoroso [6’53]
9 Rondeau: Allegro [4’37]

Piano Sonata in E flat major K282 [15’47]
10 Adagio [7’39]
11 Menuetto I & II [4’34]
12 Allegro [3’34]

CD2

Piano Sonata in G major K283 [19’48]
13 Allegro [6’10]
14 Andante [7’02]
15 Presto [6’36]

Piano Sonata in D major K284 [29’16]
16 Allegro [7’57]
17 Rondeau en polonaise: Andante [4’01]
18 Tema: Andante [0’57]
19 Variation 1 [0’58]
20 Variation 2 [1’05]
21 Variation 3 [1’05]
22 Variation 4 [1’08]
23 Variation 5 [1’09]
24 Variation 6 [1’04]
25 Variation 7: Minore [1’34]
26 Variation 8: Maggiore [0’57]
27 Variation 9 [0’57]
28 Variation 10 [1’01]
29 Variation 11: Adagio cantabile [4’17]
30 Variation 12: Allegro [1’06]

Piano Sonata in C major K309 [21’20]
31 Allegro con spirito [8’57]
32 Andante un poco adagio [5’54]
33 Rondo: Allegretto grazioso [6’29]