BEZUIDENHOUT, KRISTIAN

In alweer het zevende deel van zijn Mozart-cylclus weet Kristian Bezuidenhout opnieuw te verrassen. Centraal staan werken die beïnvloed zijn door Mozarts verblijf in Parijs in 1778: de sonate K. 310 en de virtuoze variaties op Lison dormait. Bezuidenhout koppelt ze aan twee werken die Mozart bijna vijf jaar daarvoor schreef: de sonate K. 284 en de variaties op Mio caro Adone. We zijn het inmiddels gewend, maar opnieuw bewijst Bezuidenhout een van de beste Mozart-vertolkers van onze tijd te zijn.

Mozart: Keyboard Music Volume 7

Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K284 "Dürnitz"
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K310
Sechs Variationen in G-Dur, K180 ("Mio caro Adone")
Variations (9) in C major on a theme by Nicolas Dezede ‘Lison dormait' K264

Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Paul McNulty, Divisov, Czech Republic, 2009, after Anton Walter & Sohn, Vienna, 1805. From the collection of Alexander Skeaping Unequal temperament, A = 430

In Volume 7 of his internationally praised Mozart cycle, Kristian Bezuidenhout includes two works influenced by Wolfgang's 1778 stay in Paris: the grandly proportioned Sonata in A minor, K310 and the dazzling Variations in C on 'Lison dormait', K264.

Kristian Bezuidenhout was born in South Africa in 1979. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, where he explored early keyboards, studying harpsichord with Arthur Haas, fortepiano with Malcolm Bilson, and continuo playing and performance practice with Paul O’Dette. He now lives in London. Bezuidenhout is a frequent guest artist with all of the principal period ensembles and orchestras of Europe, often assuming the role of guest director, and he collaborates regularly with many of today’s most celebrated artists.

He is a guest professor at the Schola Cantorum (Basel) and the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) and he is Artistic Advisor for the Constellation Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His recordings for harmonia mundi have garnered consistently brilliant reviews. Volume 1 of his ongoing cycle of Mozart’s keyboard works was awarded a Caecilia Prize and Gramophone 'Recommends'; Volume 2: Classic FM Magazine Editor’s Choice *****, IRR Outstanding and CD Review Disc of the Week; Volume 3 a BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice and Volume 4 and IRR Outstanding.