Keyboard Music 1

With this new CD, fortepiano phenomenon Kristian Bezuidenhout begins a multi-volume traversal of Mozart s music for solo keyboard for harmonia mundi. Volume one features an instrument by Derek Adlam modeled on an original by Gabriel Anton Walter of the type Mozart
owned in Vienna. Works on the CD include two sonatas, K533 and K570, the Fantasia K475 and the Variations on Unser dummer Pöbel meint K455. Kristian Bezuidenhout studied with Rebecca Penneys, Malcolm Bilson and Paul O Dette. He first gained international recognition at the age of 21 after winning the prestigious first prize as well as the audience prize in the Bruges Fortepiano Competition (2001), a double honor, this being only the third time the former prize has been awarded in the history of the competition. Bezuidenhout is a frequent guest artist with the world s leading ensembles and he now has a standing duo with the baroque violinist Petra Müllejans, artistic director of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Their first CD, a disc of Mozart Violin Sonatas, was released on harmonia mundi in the Spring of 2009.