Prices shown exclude VAT. (UK tax is not payable for deliveries to United States.)
See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Haydn: Piano Sonatas Volume 5
We have now reached Volume 5 in Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s project to record the complete piano sonatas of Haydn. Many leading pianists have tackled these, at times technically challenging classical sonatas, but in Bavouzet’s own words, this is a composer who always left the door open for new interpretations: ‘One often forgets how little information Haydn left in the text of his keyboard works: few instructions on nuance and phrasing, and very minimal tempo indications. Playing them is all the more fascinating for that, but it is also arduous and even risky for the performer, who must, even more than usual, create his or her own world and internal logic, only hoping – in the absence of tangible proof – that he or she is not straying too far from the composer’s intentions, forever out of reach.’ This series has been going from strength to strength, every volume receiving consistently excellent reviews. “lively and nuanced pianism in translucent recorded sound” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 **** “These are landmark recordings, thanks to the French pianist’s stylistic command and sheer delight in the music. The latest disc is dominated by the jolly Sonata No 15 in E, the tripping ornamental motifs of which tumble out with a mixture of nonchalance and elegance...Bavouzet reveals the music’s expressive charm and craftsman-like ingenuity.” Financial Times, 6th April 2013 **** | 
| | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
|
|
| |  | Glenn Gould plays Haydn: 6 Late Piano Sonatas
| | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
|
|
| |  | Haydn - Piano Sonatas
There is no more distinctive contribution to 18th Century keyboard literature than Haydn's 60 (or so) Sonatas. The brilliant American pianist Andrew Rangell plays four of these masterworks, including the great C minor, Sonata No. 33. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
|
|
| |  | Haydn: Six Piano Sonatas
Anton Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the USA and has lived in Canada for the last thirty five years. His teachers included Rudolf Serkin and he performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with Arthur Fiedler at the age of eleven. He has toured throughout the world and as a chamber musician has performed with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma and Barry Tuckwell. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
|
|
| |  | Haydn: Sonatas
Wolfgang Dimetrik (accordion) “The work on the present recording made me feel the seemingly visionary imagination of Joseph Haydn. This not only because his music can be “turned into sounds” on an accordion, which is an instrument of the 21th century: with their phraseing, their specific sound, and their transparent way of interlacing the different lines, the piano sonatas create an environment where the accordion with its fascinating timbre canbring to bear all its inherent powers.” (Wolfgang Dimetrik) | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
|
|
| |  | Haydn & The Art of Variation
“Her readings cover a full gamut of expression from the poised to the brilliant, making much of the colour contrasts offered by her main instrument, a fine-toned c1795 Schantz fortepiano...Stylistically her added decorations are always well considered.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2010 **** “…like many players approaching the instrument from the direction of the harpsichord, she appreciates its special qualities and realises them with a relish and originality that releases this wonderful music from the "warm-up" status it often endures in "traditional" piano circles. Quite simply, she restores its colour, expressiveness and grandeur. This is fortepiano-playing of true distinction.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 “Cerasi matches Haydn's invention in articulation of infinite variety, judicious use of the secretive timbre of the fortepiano's soft pedal, and subtle application of rubato.” The Independent on Sunday, 3rd January 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
|
|
| |  | Haydn - Piano Sonatas Volume 2
Haydn: | Piano Sonata No. 46 in E major, Hob.XVI:31 Piano Sonata No. 56 in D major, Hob.XVI:42 Piano Sonata No. 48 in C major, Hob.XVI:35 Piano Sonata No. 53 in E minor, Hob.XVI:34 Piano Sonata No. 41 in A major, Hob.XVI:26 Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major, Hob. XVII:4 Andante & Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 (Sonata - un piccolo divertimento) Piano Sonata No. 59 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:49 Piano Sonata No. 34 in D major, Hob.XVI:33 Piano Sonata No. 52 in G major, Hob.XVI:39 Piano Sonata No. 58 in C major, Hob.XVI:48 |
2 discs for the price of 1. Marc-André Hamelin’s first set of Haydn Piano Sonatas was Hyperion’s best-selling release of 2007, and had the critics jostling to acclaim his performances in the highest terms, in particular his expression of the ‘physical exhilaration of Haydn’s playful inspiration in a way unmatched by any pianist past or present’. His second volume, released in a year where new Haydn recordings are prominent, should surely match the critical and commercial success of the first. Some of Haydn’s most alluring and appealing keyboard works are recorded here. The surprising (to some) emotional range of the composer is fully evident in the extraordinarily sensitive and intimate Sonata in E flat major No 49, written for Maria Anna von Genzinger, and the profoundly felt Andante con variazioni in F minor, the composition of which coincided with her death. “Hamelin is especially compelling in the great C major (No 48) and E flat major (No 49) sonatas, works that rank with the finest creations of the Viennese Classical period. An unmissable bargain at two-discs-for-the-price of one.” Sunday Times, 2nd August 2009 **** “In the sonatas proper...he is a model of correctness, with enough wit, exuberance and the most exquisite lightness of touches to keep the music buoyant.” The Guardian, 31st July 2009 **** “…a luminous evenness of touch and a wonderful lightness in his decorations and runs. …his account of the Adagio of the E flat, HobXVI:49, has a tenderness of its own. And while his account of the unsettling F minor Variations knocks a startling three minutes off the timing of Gary Cooper's account reviewed here in the July issue, it proves quite as intense.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 **** “…Hamelin exhibits a coruscating wit and brilliance known to few pianists. When have you head dotted rhythms more sprucely articulated than in No 35's finale, or wondered how terms such as vivace can take on a whole new meaning given such rapier reflexes and musical sheen?” Gramophone Magazine, October 2009 “One of the outstanding releases of the Haydn celebratory year” International Record Review | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
|
|
| |  | Volume 72 & 73 of the Glenn Gould Complete Jacket CollectionHaydn: The Six Last Piano Sonatas
| | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
|
|
| |  | Haydn: Sonatas for Clavichord
Marcia Hadjimarkos (clavichord) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
|
|
| |  | Alfred Brendel plays Haydn & Mozart
(Recorded December 1975 - July 2002) “Haydn is given his own voice. You cannot expect anything less from Alfred Brendel who rarely fails to make you listen, think and feel - as indeed he does. An elite musician.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2006 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
|
|
| |
|
