South African-born, London resident Daniel-Ben Pienaar makes his Avie debut with an ambitious recording project: the complete Piano Sonatas by Mozart.

Daniel-Ben Pienaar is a completist. Recent surveys, both on the concert platform and in the recording studio, include Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Chopin’s Complete Waltzes, Schubert’s Complete Sonatas, and the complete keyboard works by Orlando Gibbons. He arrives on Avie with another major project in tow: the complete Piano Sonatas by Mozart.

An active recitalist and chamber musician, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Pienaar has a number of critically acclaimed independent releases under his belt.

Pienaar presents the works chronologically over five CDs, illustrating Mozart’s compositional trajectory which represents all of the major stylistic and emotional shifts in his mature career, with the earliest dating from his twentieth year, through his Viennese period, and the final works which were written towards the end of his all too brief life.

“Daniel-Ben Pienaar's performances are quite simply stunning. The instrument he plays matters much less than his musicianship, which is evident at every turn.” – Gramophone

“A kaleidoscope of colours and textures in performances that combined the dramatic with the ethereal, the monumental with the intimate” – International Piano

Contents:
CD 1:
- Sonata No.1 K279 in C major
- Sonata No.2 K280 in F major
- Sonata No.3 K281 in B flat major
- Sonata No.4 K282 in E flat major
- Sonata No.5 K283 in G major

CD 2:
- Sonata No.6 K284 ‘Dürnitz’ in D major
- Sonata No.7 K309 in C major
- Sonata No.8 K311 in D major
- Sonata No.9 K310 in A minor

CD 3:
- Sonata No.10 K330 in C major
- Sonata No.11 K331 ‘Alla Turca’ in A major
- Sonata No.12 K332 in F major
- Sonata No.13 K333 in B flat major

CD 4:
- Fantasie K475 in C minor
- Sonata No.14 K457 in C minor
- Sonata No.15 K533/494 in F major

CD 5:
- Sonata No.16 K545 ‘Für Änfänger’ in C major
- Sonata No.17 K570 in B flat major
- Sonata No.18 K576