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Title: later Brendel, greater Mozart
Review: The sonatas k330 amd 570 are new additions to Brendel's discography, while the K331 and 511 are re-makes. All are impressive, but none more than the K330 and 570 sonatas. In both, he articulates the slow movementsquite clearly (as usual) but also dramatizes/reveals the pathos behind the overt simplicity. His principle rivals/peers here are Clara Haskil in K330 and Claudio Arrau in k570. Arrau's was less labored than in some of his later Mozart and his K570 disc also included the sonata k576 and the B Minor Adagio K540. If one finds these Arrau interpetaions too heavy, I would recommend Brendel or Ingrid Haebler. Brendels K331 here is excellent. Ditto his A Minor Rondo, k511, a dark work which I consider Mozart's second greatest short work (after the B Minor Adagio)Peers: Haebler in all four worksK 330: Haskil (Philips), Larrocha (RCA)K331: Brendel (Philips Duo version), LarrochaK570: Arrau, LarrochaK511: Arrau (Philips), Serkin (Sony
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