Yeol Eum Son: Mozart – Complete Piano Sonatas (24/192 FLAC)

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Yeol Eum Son
Number of Discs: 6
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naive
Catalogue: V8049
Release: 2023
Size: 14.6 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 01
Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, K. 279 (189d)
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Allegro

Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K. 280 (189e)
04. I. Allegro assai
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Presto

Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, K. 281 (189f)
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Andante amoroso
09. III. Rondeau. Allegro

Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-Flat Major, K. 282 (189g)
10. I. Adagio
11. II. Menuetto I – Menuetto II
12. III. Allegro

CD 02
Piano Sonata No. 5 in G Major, K. 283 (189h)
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Presto

Piano Sonata No. 6 in D Major, K. 284 (205b)
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Rondeau en polonaise. Andante
06. III. Tema con variazione

Piano Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K. 309 (284b)
07. I. Allegro con spirito
08. II. Andante un poco adagio
09. III. Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso

CD 03
Piano Sonata No. 8 in D Major, K. 311 (284c)
01. I. Allegro con spirito
02. II. Andante con espressione
03. III. Rondeau. Allegro

Piano Sonata No. 9 in A Minor, K. 310 (300d)
04. I. Allegro maestoso
05. II. Andante cantabile
06. III. Presto

Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330 (300h)
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Andante cantabile
09. III. Allegretto

CD 04
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331 (300i)
01. I. Tema con variazione. Andante grazioso
02. II. Menuetto
03. III. Alla Turca. Allegretto

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332 (300k)
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Allegro assai

CD 05
Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-Flat Major, K. 333 (315c)
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante cantabile
03. III. Allegretto grazioso

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457
04. I. Molto allegro
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Allegro assai

CD 06
Piano Sonata No. 15 in F Major, K. 533/494
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Rondo. Allegretto

Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Andante
06. III. Rondo. Allegretto

Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-Flat Major, K. 570
07. I. Allegro
08. II. Adagio
09. III. Allegretto

Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576
10. I. Allegro
11. II. Adagio
12. III. Allegretto

Yeol Eum Son immerses herself in the limitless whimsical imagination of Mozart’s sonatas, and with this complete collection takes us on a voyage in a land of contrasts.


Yeol Eum Son has always been drawn to Mozart’s style, in her heart and in her fingers, and maintains a special relationship with his music. She likes to translate from this language, which she considers her mother tongue, the incredible ability to express different worlds, atmospheres and feeling.


“His music,” she says, “speaks of both sunshine and eternal night, extremes of heat and cold, elegance and farce, Lolita and Madonna.”


The Korean pianist, a newcomer at naïve, has achieved distinction in numerous international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky, Viotti, Rubinstein and Van Cliburn, and offers us with this polished collection full of contrasts a Mozart who is “passionate, dramatic and operatic, and extremely capricious.”


This colourful vision of the corpus of eighteen piano sonatas, imbued with all the necessary clarity and innocent state of mind, leads the listener cheerfully from a Turkish march to a peasant song, from a serenade for wind instruments to a wide range of variations.


Apart from the fact that she enjoyed “imagining a troupe of singers, a plot and some scenes,” Yeol Eum Son also, inspired by the composer’s improvising talents, allowed herself not to decide everything before the recording and to leave room for the inspiration of the moment. And if she is quite unable to choose one single sonata over all the others, K283 (no.5), K311 (no.8), K330 (no.10), K331 (no.11) and K333 (no.13) “have all been her favourites since [her] childhood.”