In the booklet-note Malcolm Bilson speaks of returning to ‘Haydn’s sound world’ but the sound world for No 60 (1794/95) is not the world of the Schanz fortepiano used here. The first edition of this ...
Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...
Hearing world-renowned classical musicians perform live is a rare experience for most college students. But Wednesday evening, acclaimed Russian-born pianist Boris Berman will fill the intimate Morse ...
Haydn composed 60 sonatas for the piano between the 1750s and 1795. Though six are lost, it represents a significant body of work and, having fallen rather out of fashion in recent years, is now being ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. More Bavouzet – and more delights, as the French pianist continues his admirable survey of the 50-plus Haydn piano ...
Roman Rabinovich – born in Uzbekistan and raised in Israel, and an alumnus of both Juilliard and Curtis – has started a Haydn piano sonata cycle for First Hand Records. The first volume has been ...
(Vladimir Horowitz, Albert Coates conducting London Symphony; Seraphim 60063). While Columbia is assiduously releasing new Horowitz recordings, Angel-Seraphim is assiduously reissuing old ones. This ...
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Haydn’s piano sonatas are not the work of a keyboard virtuoso. And the “big statement”-style of performing them is one of their major enemies. Marc-André Hamelin may be a virtuoso, but he has divined ...