The musical multi-talent Mozart mastered several instruments at the highest level. Although he was said to have a special preference for bowed strings, the piano was hardly less to his liking; he learned to play it as a small child, and it was probably his most important working instrument: his freelance existence as a musician in Vienna would hardly have been possible without perfect mastery of it, whether as an instrumental teacher, répétiteur or accompanist of soloists. Thus the piano also played a central role in Mozart’s compositional work.

His 18 piano sonatas can be described as the secret stars of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's extensive work - they were often important fields of experimentation, which in Mozart's short biography describe a development from early Rococo to classical maturity, in which he explored new composition techniques and then later developed them the larger genera transmitted. This is exemplified by the three new works recorded by Amy Lin in the well-known sensitive way: The Sonata KV 333 emphasizes the lyrical-pastoral. In KV 284, the 18-year-old composer already establishes the alternation between “quasi-tutti” modeled on the orchestral setting and soloistic passages in dialogue-like interplay. The famous C minor sonata KV 457, which Beethoven so admired, shows a completely different, dark, dramatic tone and thus Mozart's fascinating variety of styles in this genre too.