Mozart/ Donohoe - V6: Piano SonatasSOMM Recordings' acclaimed survey of Mozart's Piano Sonatas by Peter Donohoe reaches it's end with Volume 6 featuring four works illustrating the composer's endless fascination and creative invention with the piano. Mozart described the Piano Sonata No. 16 (K. 545) as "a little piano sonata for beginners". It is so much more than that. As Christopher Morley says in his authoritative booklet notes: "Sounding deceptively simple The opening movement even

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