Francesco Piemontesi launched his completecycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas at the end oflast season, introducing his series by neatlydovetailing with the close of Wigmore Hall’sMozart Odyssey.

The Italian pianist,universally recognised among today’s finestMozarteans, opens his latest programmewith the splendid Variations on a Minuetby Frederick the Great’s court cellist andcontinues with the composer’s penultimatesonata, a work considered by Alfred Einsteinto be ‘perhaps the most completely roundedof them all’.