Kemp English - Ko�eluch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 7

In 1785 and 1786 Mozart's piano concertos were winning many admirers in the public concert halls of Vienna. Ko�eluch, however, continued to excel as master of the piano sonata, plying his art in the city's ubiquitous private concert soir�es. Indeed, the four works presented here ably demonstrate why his sonatas might aptly be called 'the ideal of the high-Classic style'. To be sure, Mozart's influence is felt in Sonatas Nos. 21, 23 and 24 but in Sonata No. 22, Ko�eluch leads the way by paring away the textures and introducing figurations of simplicity and grace; hallmarks of Mozart's much later penultimate Sonata in B flat major K570.