Orli Shaham’s Mozart’s Piano Sonatas survey is marked by a brightness of tone and crisply pointed but fluid playing style that makes an immediate claim for attention. Its glinting quality is largely sustained across six discs – currently available separately, although a boxset is expected imminently – and comes especially into its own in K333’s sparkle, the Alla Turca K331, and elsewhere in movements responsive to the approach.

If it seems less satisfying in the corralling together of the three B major Sonatas – K281, K333 and K570 – in Volume 1, the refinement of her playing (something she shares with her violinist brother, Gil) readily compensates. Volumes 2 and 3 revel in more variegated playing – coming into its own in the first movements of K331 and K332 and throughout the delightfully dispatched K545 – and a more pronounced use of dynamic contrast that lends K310 a decidedly operatic tint.   

The trio of teenage-years calling card sonatas – K279, K280, K284 – making up Volume 4 are rendered with spryly pointed poetry. In all...