Mozart: Piano Sonatas / Stefan Vladar
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- Sony Masterworks
- April 23, 2009
The young Viennese pianist Stefan Vladar is rapidly building a big international career; and Sony have been quick to sign him up on an exclusive contract. This Mozart recital is the first of a series of solo recordings that will include such colossi of the keyboard repertoire as Brahms's C major Sonata and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. His programme here has been intelligently chosen to encompass a diversity of forms and styles while retaining a coherent key sequence. The two well-contrasted sonatas (one from 1775, one from the Mannheim group of 1777) frame three shorter works from the last six years of Mozart's life: the urbane Rondo, K485 (in design not a rondo at all, but a monothematic sonata), the profound, highly chromatic Adagio, K540 and the entertaining, if slightly perfunctory, variations on a jejune minuet by Jean-Pierre Duport, cellist at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia.
I was impressed by much of this recital. Vladar is an elegant, well-schooled player with a refined, even touch; nothing in these performances is ungainly or ill-considered. Yet grace and poise are balanced by an underlying robust vitality in pieces like the first and last movements of K283 (done with nicely pointed rhythms and bold dynamic contrasts), the Duport Variations and the finale of K311, which shows off Vladar's technical address to advantage. This is a thoughtful and stylish debut recital from a young pianist who on this evidence has the potential to become a notable Mozartian. Sony's own high claims for the recorded sound are actually justified here: the piano image is outstandingly clear and lifelike.
-- Gramophone [6/1991]
I was impressed by much of this recital. Vladar is an elegant, well-schooled player with a refined, even touch; nothing in these performances is ungainly or ill-considered. Yet grace and poise are balanced by an underlying robust vitality in pieces like the first and last movements of K283 (done with nicely pointed rhythms and bold dynamic contrasts), the Duport Variations and the finale of K311, which shows off Vladar's technical address to advantage. This is a thoughtful and stylish debut recital from a young pianist who on this evidence has the potential to become a notable Mozartian. Sony's own high claims for the recorded sound are actually justified here: the piano image is outstandingly clear and lifelike.
-- Gramophone [6/1991]
Product Description:
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Release Date: April 23, 2009
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UPC: 074644670028
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Catalog Number: SONY46700
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Label: Sony Masterworks
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Number of Discs: 1
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Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus, Mozart
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Performer: Stefan, Vladar