Brautigan: Mozart Complete Piano Sonatas

This CD set is amazing. Ronald Brautigan plays each note with such respect. Every note, every phrase. With this quality, it seems that the pianoforte's weaknesses are actually strengths. The phrasing is so superb, it is almost like listening to your lover whispering your favorite love-poem.

Beautiful technique, softness, and intention. This expands on what one could expect from Mozart works, and certainly raises the bar for new recordings.
A BIS recording on a 1992 (Paul McNulty) replica of a 1795 fortepiano by Anton Gabriel Walter.

Name	Key	Catalogue	Musicians	Observations
Piano Sonata No. 1	in C major	K. 279 (K. 189d)
Piano Sonata No. 2	in F major	K. 280 (K. 189e)
Piano Sonata No. 3	in B flat major	K. 281 (K.189f)
Piano Sonata No. 4	in E flat major	K. 282 (K. 189g)
Piano Sonata No. 5	in G major	K. 283 (K. 189h)
Piano Sonata No. 6	in D major	K. 284 (K. 205b)
Piano Sonata No. 7	in C major	K. 309 (K. 284b)
Piano Sonata No. 9	in D major	K. 311 (K. 284c)
Piano Sonata No. 8	in A minor	K. 310 (K. 300d)
Piano Sonata No. 10	in C major	K. 330 (K. 300h)
Piano Sonata No. 11	in A major	K. 331 (K. 300i)		"Alla Turca"
Piano Sonata No. 12	in F major	K. 332 (K. 300k)
Piano Sonata No. 13	in B flat major	K. 333 (K. 315c)
Fantasia for piano	in C minor	K. 475
Piano Sonata No. 14	in C minor	K. 457
Piano Sonata	F	K.533/494
Piano Sonata No. 15	C	K.545		"Sonata semplice"
Piano Sonata No. 16	Bb	K.570
Piano Sonata No. 17	D	K.576		"Trumpet", "Hunt"

Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata

This disc is amazing too.

It plays a very nice sonata with its intended dead (as in latin) instrument, and its contemporary companion. These are the arpeggione a fretted, bowed, 6-string instrument, and the famous pianoforte which evolved into modern pianos.
I have to say that Rostropovich's interpretation is fantastic (as noted in earlier posts), but the charm of this historic recording is amazing. Very hard to find, indeed.

Along with the arpeggione sonata come the variations for flute and pianoforte "Trockne Blumen". I will omit comments on it, as it did not impress me.

Constructors:
Arpeggione: Anton Mitteis, mid s.XIX
Flute: Matheus Schrafft, 1830
Fortepiano: Joseph Brodmann, Vienna ca.1810

Name	Key	Catalogue	Musicians	Observations
Sonata für Arpeggione		D.821	Klaus Storek, arpeggione Alfons Kontarsky, fortepiano
Trockne Blumen		D.802	Hans-Martin Linde, flute Alfons Kontarsky, fortepiano

Schubert, Schumann, Debussy: Arpeggione

As the booklet quotes, the sound quality is amazing... it is so warm yet harsh. Both musicians, Rostropovich(cello) & Britten(piano) are so well coupled that it sounds as a perfect unit. And though the Schubert's Arpeggione sonata is simple, it is so direct and with such an emotional interpretation that it keeps resounding after it is over. Amazing sound produced by the cello, with plucked chords at some point.
Schumann's five pieces are quite lively and wholehearted.
Debussy is more contemplative and excessively tentative, instead of inspired to my taste.

Definitely a must buy!!
Decca: Legendary Performances, Legends 1968
engineered at 96Khz 24-bit (Super Digital transfer) above standards

Name	Key	Catalogue	Musicians	Observations
Franz Schubert: Sonata for arpeggione and piano		D821		Recorded Snape, 1968
Robert Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston		p.102		London 1961
Claude Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano		L.135		London 1961