The fifth CD of a series in which the Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila records all piano sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After her piano studies in Helsinki and Paris, Tuija Hakkila has focused on playing authentic instruments. In this project she plays a copy of a fortepiano built by Anton Walter shortly after 1780 (Mozart's concert instrument, which is now on display in the composer's birthplace
… in Salzburg). It is a wonderful instrument that is fully appreciated by Hakkila's masterful playing. On the fifth CD you can hear the Sonata in D, KV 284, of which the third part, very exceptionally, takes the form of a theme with variations; further the Sonata in F, KV 533, the last movement of which was originally written as an independent rondo. Finally two rondo 'more
