9 Oct 2018

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 18 in D, K576

From Music Alive, 7:30 pm on 9 October 2018

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Played by Avan Yu at the 2018 Wallace International Piano Festival, 12 July 2018.

Avan Yu

Avan Yu Photo: Irène Zandel

This is Mozart’s last piano sonata.

He wrote it in 1789, possibly for Princess Friederike of Prussia. And although Mozart described it as easy, it’s anything but … often considered one of the most difficult of his sonatas to play.

Recorded by RNZ Concert, 12 July 2018
Engineer: Rangi Powick
Producer: Tim Dodd

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