Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13-18 Roberto Prosseda

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Piano Sonata No.13 In B Flat, K.333:
• 1 Piano Sonata No.13 In B Flat, K.333: 1. Allegro 07:02
• 2 Piano Sonata No.13 In B Flat, K.333: 2. Andante cantabile 11:17
• 3 Piano Sonata No.13 In B Flat, K.333: 3. Allegretto grazioso 06:14
• 4 Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 11:11
• Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457:
• 5 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457: 1. Molto allegro 07:50
• 6 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457: 2. Adagio 07:06
• 7 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457: 3. Allegro assai 04:46
• Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494:
• 8 Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494: 1. Allegro, K.533 07:37
• 9 Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494: 2. Andante, K.533 09:11
• 10 Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494: 3. Rondo (Allegretto), K.494 06:24
• Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 "Sonata facile":
• 11 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 "Sonata facile": 1. Allegro 04:15
• 12 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 "Sonata facile": 2. Andante 05:47
• 13 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 "Sonata facile": 3. Rondo (Allegro) 02:05
• Piano Sonata No.17 in B Flat Major, K.570:
• 14 Piano Sonata No.17 in B Flat Major, K.570: 1. Allegro 05:58
• 15 Piano Sonata No.17 in B Flat Major, K.570: 2. Adagio 08:41
• 16 Piano Sonata No.17 in B Flat Major, K.570: 3. Allegretto 03:51
• Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576:
• 17 Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576: 1. Allegro 05:06
• 18 Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576: 2. Adagio 04:40
• 19 Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576: 3. Allegretto 04:18
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
• 20 Allegro in G minor, K.312 04:53
• Total Runtime 02:08:12

Info for Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13-18

Roberto Prosseda closes the Mozart sonatas series with not equal tuning. Is there really any need for yet another recording of Mozart’s sonatas? Is it still possible to say something new when playing these compositions while maintaining respect for the score and for the composer’s indications? If Mozart were alive today, would he prefer to perform his sonatas on a fortepiano of the time or on a modern piano?

These are questions to which it is not possible to give an unequivocal answer, but on which I have reflected a great deal, also profiting from the availability of the sources and of many recent philological studies. In the letter to his father cited earlier, written on 17 October 1777, Mozart declared his enthusiasm for a new Stein piano that he had tried out, which was provided with a rudimentary system for working the dampers (corresponding to the right pedal on modern instruments).

Roberto Prosseda, Klavier

Roberto Prosseda
born in Latina, Lazio, in 1975, is one of the most active and versatile Italian musicians on the current international scene. He gained international fame following his recordings of the complete Mendelssohn piano music (Decca, 2005-14), published in a box set in 2017.

Over the past twenty years Roberto has performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. With the Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly, he recorded Mendelssohn’s then-unpublished E minor piano concerto. In Italy he is a regular guest at the major concert venues, including the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro alla Scala, Unione Musicale in Turin, Teatro La Fenice, Accademia Chigiana (Siena) and Teatro Comunale (Bologna).

Roberto is particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin. His six albums of Mozart piano sonatas for Decca have received considerable international acclaim. In 2022 Roberto completed a project to record the complete Mozart piano works. 2025 saw the release on Hyperion of War Silence, a collection of rare Italian piano concertos by Guido Alberto Fano, Luigi Dallapiccola, Silvio Omizzolo and Cristian Carrara, described in Gramophone magazine as ‘an absorbing listen’.

Since 2011 Roberto has also played the pedal piano in public, having re-discovered and presented in modern premieres various pieces by Alkan and Gounod’s Concerto for pedal piano and orchestra with Parma’s Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. He has performed the latter also with the Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Lahti Symphony and Netherlands Symphony orchestras, and for Hyperion recorded Gounod’s four pieces for pedal piano and orchestra with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and Howard Shelley. Roberto has performed on the piano pedal in over 100 concerts, contributing to the revitalization of the instrument and its repertoire.

Roberto Prosseda is equally active as a music writer and author of radio and TV projects, as well as a creator of innovative musical programmes of international scope. He conceived three television documentaries, about Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt, directed by Angelo Bozzolini, produced by RAI and globally distributed by EuroArts. His book Il Pianoforte, a listening guide to piano repertoire, was published by Edizioni Curci in 2013.

This album contains no booklet.