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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's piano playing is highly praised for it's tremendous reflectiveness. He could spend decades immersing himself in a piece in order to get to know it inside out. His art of touch, his wealth of overtones and his highly refined sense of sound are just as praiseworthy - qualities that came in especially useful for playing Chopin and Debussy. Michelangeli is, however, less known as a Mozart interpreter which makes these 1956 recordings with the orchestra of Süddeutscher Rundfunk conducted by Anton von Bavier so fascinating. Here, Michelangeli presents a life-affirming, even vigorous Mozart with almost Olympian pride. His manner of playing is always forward-pushing, at times boisterously passionate. In his interpretation there is no exaggerated sensitivity, no fiddling with sound, no over-reflectiveness and, in particular, no sentimentality in the slow movements. Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro [10 05] 2. II. Andante [05 17] 3. III. Allegro [07 55] 4. I. Allegro [13 39] 5. II. Romance [09 00] 6. III. Rondo Allegro Assai [07 14]
