Mozart's piano sonatas, though seemingly conventional with their three-movement structure, are eloquent testimonies to his famed art of improvisation.
William Youn performs on a C. Bechstein grand piano D 282 for this recording.
Johann Christian Bach, son of J.S. Bach, and Joseph Haydn were important models for Mozart's 18 piano sonatas.
William Youn, the Korean pianist, was born in 1982 and is praised by the press as a 'genuine poet' with a 'bravura technique of touch'.
Mozart was a brilliant violinist and violist, but his special love and mastery were for the piano.
William Youn made his debut with the Munich Philharmonic in December 2014, invited by Lorin Maazel and conducted by Pietari Inkinen.
This album is the second in William Youn's Mozart series for OehmsClassics, following a 2013 release that won the Pizzicato Supersonic Award.
