Pianist Orli Shaham releases final volumes of
"Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas"
Volumes 5 & 6 include Sonatas K.309, K.311, K.330, K.457 and K.533/494
Digital release: February 9, 2024
Physical release: February 23, 2024
on Canary Classics
"insightful and perspicacious playing"
— Classical Music Sentinel
The internationally-renowned concert pianist Orli Shaham is wrapping up her multi-year endeavor of recording all of Mozart’s piano sonatas. Volumes 5/6 of Orli Shaham's "Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas" (Canary Classics CC24) is released on CD February 23, 2024. The digital album is currently available for download and streaming. The complete box set with all six volumes will be released this spring.
Preparing to record the sonatas inspired Shaham to keep in mind where Mozart was when he wrote each of them. Whether it was Munich or Paris or Salzburg, she said in the album's liner notes written by Donald Rosenberg, “Was he trying out that piano? Was he writing for someone’s daughters? I want that something from every single one of them.”
"Mozart is both subtle and daring in his distinctive handling of materials," writes Rosenberg. "And to Shaham, there’s more. 'He’s also experimenting with audience manipulation—with the things he sets up beautifully and fulfills, how he thwarts your expectations. I do see through these sonatas that you the listener or amateur pianist—you were on his mind. In his letters, ‘you’ means whatever your level of musical training.'"
Critics call Shaham "an intelligent and sensitive guide" for this music. For a digital or physical copy of Volumes 5/6 or any of the previously released discs, contact ClassicalCommunications@gmail.com.
“A top-tier and consistently satisfying Mozart cycle.”
– International Piano
Pianist Orli Shaham
Mozart Piano Sonatas
Volumes 5 & 6
K.309 ● K.311 ● K.330
K.457 ● K.533/494
Canary Classics CC24
Digital release: February 9, 2024
Physical release: February 23, 2024
UPC: 5 060133 300144
TRACK LIST
Volume 5 (Total time 65:11)
1–3 Piano Sonata in C Major, No. 7, K.309
4–6 Piano Sonata in D Major, No. 8, K.311
7–9 Piano Sonata in C Major, No. 10, K.330
Volume 6 (Total time 53:05)
1–3 Piano Sonata in C minor, No. 14, K.457
4–6 Piano Sonata in F Major, No. 15, K.533/494
Hailed as “a first-rate Mozartean” by Chicago Tribune, Orli Shaham has established an international reputation as one of today's most gifted pianists.
Orli Shaham has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world, and has appeared in recital from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in Costa Mesa, California and Artistic Director of the interactive children's concert series, Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010. She has served on the juries of both the Cliburn and Honens International Piano Competitions.
In 2024, Ms. Shaham releases Volumes 5 and 6, the final volumes of "Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas". Her Mozart recording project also includes Piano Concertos with St. Louis Symphony, all of which are part of her discography of over a dozen titles on Canary Classics, Deutsche Gramophone, Albany Records, SFS Media and more.
Orli Shaham is a Co-Host and Creative for the national radio program From the Top. She is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is chair of the board of trustees at Kaufman Music Center in New York.