Complete Piano Sonatas, Piano Works : Engel (6CD)

Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-18 & works for solo piano

Piano Sonatas 1-18 (complete)
Fantasia in D minor, K397
Fantasia in C minor, K475
Rondo in D major, K485
Rondo in A minor, K511
March in C Major, K408
Kleiner Trauermarsch in c-moll: 'Marche funebre del Sig.r Maestro Contrapunto', K453a
Andantino in E flat major, K236 (K588b)
Adagio in C major, K356
Adagio in B minor, K540
Gigue in G Major, K574
Minuet in D major, K355
Allegro einer Sonate K312
Allegro in B flat major ("Sophie and Constanze"), K400
Thema (with 5 variations) K54 (547a, 3) F major
Andante in F major, K616

Karl Engel, piano

Recorded: 1980-81

Swiss pianist Karl Engel was a student of Paul Baumgartner at the Basel Conservatory from 1942 to 1945. After World War II he studied with Alfred Cortot at the ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in 1947-1948.

He toured internationally as a soloist with orchestras, a recitalist and as a chamber music performer. He became particularly known for his complete cycles of Mozart piano sonatas and concertos, and Beethoven piano sonatas. He also distinguished himself as an accompanist, often appearing in Lieder recitals with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Peter Schreier and Brigitte Fassbaender.

Among his chamber music partners were Pablo Casals, Yehudi Menuhin as well as the Melos Qt.

From 1958 to 1986 Karl Engel was Professor of piano at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany.

He gave famous master-classes in France, Canada and Portugal.