Friedrich Gulda - The Gulda Mozart Tapes, Vol. 2: 6 Sonatas (2007)

F. Gulda was, according to eminent cellist Pierre Fournier, the foremost pianist of his generation. And HIS generation emcompassed big names like Alfred Brendel, Ingrid Haebler, Jorg Demus, and perhaps, even Maurizio Pollini.
It is a great pity that Gulda wasn't in league with 'the' eminent conductor Herbert von Karajan. This precluded many otherwise hot exposures of Gulda in discography.
If pianists like Uchida could leave a complete set of Mozart sonatas, if Christoph Eschenbach could leave yet another complete set with good critical acclaim, certainly Friedrich Gulda's Mozart sonatas (and concerti) would have been hailed by ALL as the greatest ever!
Unfortunately, the 'eccentric' Friedrich Gulda did NOT leave such complete recordings of Mozart. His available recordings of Mozart's sonatas are scattered, with bits here and bits there. The only available 'album' with Universal is his late sonatas under DG, and that album alone would explain why F. Gulda was, in his lifetime, hailed as the greatest pianist of his generation.
I need not mention how invaluable are the current sets of Gulda's Mozart tapes, irrespective of whether the pianist ever intended these performances to be published in his lifetime.
They represent a pinnacle of Mozart interpretation that never before heard of from the hands of a pianist in recordings. It should be remembered that the great Clara Haskil, hailed as the greatest Mozart pianist in mid-1960s, NEVER left any album of Mozart sonatas, either.