W. A. Mozart - Sonata for Piano 4-hands in C major K. 521 - Levin & Frager [Period Instruments]

I. Allegro 0:00
II. Andante 14:17
III. Allegretto 21:13
Robert Levin - Mozarts Hammerklavier, Anton Walter, Wien um 1782 (Anton Walter, Vienna, ca. 1780, Mozart's own concert grand)
Malcolm Frager - Garser Flügel, Anton Walter, Wien um 1790 (Anton Walter, Vienna, ca. 1790)
Recorded live in the Rittersaal of the Prince Archbishop's former Residence in Salzburg during the 1990 Mozart Week
CD:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Works for Two Claviers / Werke für zwei Klaviere 1990
Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg ISM 90/1

[@josephking92]

I've heard several versions of this peace, but this is by far my favorite. A very well done performance.

[@cathaypacific2118]

5:00 onwards is a surprise!

[@donaldgoodell7675]

The instrument is tun’d to the correct pitch for Vienna in (c. 1787) with A=432 (not the sharper A=440 of to-day) and the speed is more or less correct (too many modern keyboard players rush & bustle through the first Allegro without touching upon the subtleties of the hauntingly melodic textures which are finely balanced between the two players) - could have been play’d with more ‘fire’ by Rob Levin etal but they do their work well enough (despite lack of ‘ornamentations’ that M. himself would have added) - Levin must have had to constrain himself on this recording !)