Michael Wessel - Mozart the Double-Faced - Piano Sonatas

The other day I was of evil humour, then I wrote beautifully, straight and seriously; today I am well rhymed up, then I write wildly, crookedly and merrily; now it only depends on which you prefer, you must choose between the two, for I have no means Thus Mozart wrote to the B�sle in 1777.The works united here show Mozart's described two-facedness of his mind as well as his works.

[Wessel] succeeds in giving an extremely transparent interpretation that at the same time seems very spontaneous, always rhetorical and with gracefully elegant virtuosity in the fast movements. In the slow movements his playing is poetically full of meaning. The clear cautiousness testifies to his empathy for a soulful dimension of the music � Pizzicato