Pianist Orli Shaham's New Album, "Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas"

Released on Canary Classics, the album completes Shaham's exploration of Mozart's Piano Sonatas

Pianist Orli Shaham has released her Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas album on Canary Classics as a Limited Edition Box Set.

Back in 2020, Shaham released her first volume featuring Mozart's Piano Sonatas K. 281, K. 333, and K. 570. In 2022, she released Volumes 2 and 3, including K. 282, K. 283, K. 310, K. 331, K. 332, K. 545, and K. 576.

2023 brought on Volumes 4, 5, and 6, and this year's release presents the entire cycle of all 18 Mozart Piano Sonatas.

This new comprehensive release captures Shaham's interpretation of all 18 Mozart Piano Sonatas, one of the most celebrated and challenging repertoires for the piano. To purchase and listen to the album, click here.

Composed between 1774 and 1789, the sonatas showcase Mozart's development as a composer and pianist, completing his first piano sonata at age 18. Mozart's final piano sonata, K. 576 is regarded as the summation of his sonata style, incorporating contrapuntal techniques and mixing simplicity with complexity.

Shaham shared, “Since I was recording it, I decided to go ‘all out’ with the ornamentation, varying trills, grace notes, and other ornamentation with each successive take, to elicit the drama, humor and playfulness of the sonatas."

Watch Pianist Orli Shaham perform Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 15, K. 533:

Pianist Orli Shaham has performed with many of the major international orchestras and has appeared in recitals internationally, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is the Artistic Director of the Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California since 2007, and Artistic Director of the interactive children's concert series, Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010. Shaham is a Co-Host and Creative for the national radio program From the Top. She is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is chair of the board of trustees at Kaufman Music Center in New York.