Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 17 in B flat major, K570

Performances are, as ever with Gulda, “propulsive, supple and, in the slower music, serenely unaffected” (Rob Cowan, The Independent) or, in the French view “subversive, innovative, full of life and anger” (Alain Lompech, Diapason)

“Gulda's playing is effortlessly musical throughout, Particularly impressive are the two minor-key sonatas, with the maestoso marking of K310's first movement conveyed without a hint of portentousness, and the outer movements of the C minor K457 as intense as you could wish for.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *****

“Each performance attests to Gulda's persuasive inner rhythm and sense of "swing" that prevent his unswervingly steady tempi fro sounding the least bit mechanical. The slow movements dance as well as sing, while witty ornaments stylishly and tastefully decorate repeated passages and echoed phrases.” Gramophone Magazine, Janurary 2008

Andras Schiff said of Horszowski’s Chopin: ‘It’s as though he had written the music himself. It’s unbelievably unpredictable, and yet it’s completely natural, and comes from within the composition. I learned a great deal about rubato from Horszowski, because he uses it in a way that’s like Chopin must have done: he never loses the pulse, and yet it’s played with great freedom.’

“Schumann's Arabeske is played with a tender simplicity that entrances. Of the Chopin group, the B major Nocturne is an outstanding example of Horszowski's long-breathed cantabile…” Gramophone Magazine, August 2008

“…in Schumann's Träumerei - the perfect encore - Horszowski demonstrates why he was so revered by Murray Perahia and András Schiff.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 ****

“If I was to single out only one disc from BBC Legends’ buried treasure, it would surely be this recital by Mieczyslaw Horszowski (BBCL 4203-2)…The Mozart B flat Sonata’s finale is unforgettably perky and buoyant and it is no exaggeration to say that every bar of this miraculous work seems illuminated by some indefinable but unmistakable light from within…this disc is beyond price and should be heard by all lovers of musical greatness.” Bryce Morrison, Gramophone Magazine, May 2007.