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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Haydn - Piano Sonatas Volume 3
Haydn: | Piano Sonata No. 13 in G major, Hob.XVI:6 Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, Hob.XVI:1 Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Hob.XVI:2 Piano Sonata No. 32 in G minor, Hob.XVI:44 Piano Sonata No. 40 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:25 Piano Sonata No. 33 in C minor, Hob.XVI:20 Piano Sonata No. 49 in C sharp minor, Hob.XVI:36 Piano Sonata No. 37 in E major, Hob.XVI:22 Piano Sonata No. 44 in F major, Hob.XVI:29 Piano Sonata No. 61 in D major, Hob.XVI:51 Piano Sonata No. 19 in E minor, Hob.deest |
Hyperion’s Record of the Month is the third double-volume release in Marc-André Hamelin’s much-praised series of Haydn’s keyboard sonatas. Haydn wrote around sixty keyboard sonatas and this selection of eleven focuses on those from the 1770s, including the great C minor sonata from the composer’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period, with its dynamic contrasts and virtuoso demands. These are bookended by three from Haydn’s earliest output from the 1750s, most likely penned for his young female pupils to play, and the D major sonata written during the second of the mature composer’s triumphant London visits in 1794. In all these fascinating, idiosyncratic works, Marc-André Hamelin wears his renowned virtuosity lightly, while playing with understated wit and the elegant, immaculate musicianship that has come to define one of the greatest pianists of our time. “the playing is outstanding for its crystalline tone, springy rhythms, lively tempos and integral handling of ornamentation...Hamelin is often at his most brilliant where Haydn is at his most eccentric” BBC Music Magazine, July 2012 **** “The most immediately striking feature of the set is the unfailingly superb, crystalline clarity of Hamelin's sound...Here no detail is obscured and, with the exception of certain legato ligatures that Hamelin consistently chooses not to observe, articulation is within the realm of what Haydn's notation suggests...There is a certain stylistic cohesion to all these performances: everything is unmistakeably stamped 'Hamelin's Haydn'.” International Record Review, June 2012 “the majority of the sonatas, with their volte-face humour and open-hearted delight in the unexpected, reflect a joy in compositional wizardry. Such qualities are dazzlingly articulated by Hamelin, with one performance after another of crystalline brilliance and musicianship...These are magnificent performances and clearly a prime love for Hamelin.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2012 “Hamelin’s fluency amazes but is never ostentatious...Slow movements are delicately coloured, and there’s never a hint of indulgence. Hamelin lets Haydn do the talking.” The Arts Desk, 28th July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The multi-award winning and ever-popular Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is back with Volume 2 of Chandos’ highly acclaimed Haydn Sonata series. This new release follows Bavouzet’s complete Debussy cycle and a number of recent concerto recordings – all of which have been extraordinarily well received by critics and audiences alike, picking up numerous awards along the way. Many leading pianists have tackled these at times technically challenging classical sonatas by Haydn, 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.’ For the recording Bavouzet brought in a specially selected Yamaha piano which he feels gives the sort of tonal quality he is looking for, and it shows in the programme for Volume 2 which includes the elegantly virtuosic Sonata in E minor, No. 19; Sonata in B flat major, No. 20; Sonata in G minor, No. 32; Sonata in C major, No. 48, and Sonata in D major, No. 50. “These performances sound natural, appropriate and in perfect structural and expressive proportion...They are the work of an insightful musician of profound culture and wide interests, whose intellectual and emotional identification with Haydn is unreserved, and whose playing, beautifully captured in technical terms, is a delight to listen to.” International Record Review, April 2011 “In the second volume of his complete Haydn cycle [Bavouzet] shines particularly in sonatas 48 and 50, the sprightliest on the CD, both with lovely reflective slow movements. Bavouzet offers the crispest of trills, a sprinkling of the fantastic, and a tender heart.” The Times, 16th April 2011 **** “His playing in this second installment is quite as exemplary in touch, phrasing, characterisation and continuity, while the recorded sound is again intimate yet unconstricted...Bavouzet brings a fizzing vivacity to the first movement of Sonata No. 48 in C...And in the solemn neo-baroque central movement of No. 50 in D (c.1778), his control of sonority and voicing of inner parts has a measured grandeur that is quite marvellous.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 **** “Bavouzet is perhaps the ideal pianist for Haydn: his clarity of touch, quickness of wit and sensitivity to different soundworlds make him an empathetic interpreter...[he] makes the most of the contrasts between the pieces...The pianist is very much alive to their unfailingly fresh invention, delivering it all apparently effortlessly and without exceeding the necessary 18th-century parameters on the modern grand piano” Classic FM Magazine, June 2011 **** “Bavouzet more than holds his own and, time and again, seems to offer a fresh ear to these sonatas, as if this is as much his great adventure as ours.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Ragna Schirmer ventures far from the beaten track, imaginatively interspersing substantial and familiar masterpieces with a string of enlivening miniatures… All these finely recorded performances are models of musical grace and resilience.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Byron Schenkman (harpsichord) | |
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“This is a beautiful, atmospheric performance with evocative, church-like (but not mushy) sound...If this particular collection appeals to you, you can certainly buy the CD with confidence” Fanfare, July/August 2002 | | | (also available to download from $5.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Pablo Casals: The Emotion of the Cello
Bach, J S: | Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009 Pastorale in F major, BWV590: Aria Organ Concerto in C major (after Vivaldi), BWV594: Recitative | Beethoven: | Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102 No. 2 Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46 Variations (12) on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" for Cello and Piano, Op. 66 | Boccherini: | Cello Sonata in A major: Allegro | Brahms: | Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 | Campagnoli: | Romance | Casals: | El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the birds) | Falla: | Nana (No. 5 from Siete canciones populares españolas) | Handel: | Largo from Xerxes (instrumental arrangement) | Haydn: | Piano Sonata No. 19 in E minor, Hob.deest | Popper: | Serenade, Op. 54, No. 2 | Saint-Saëns: | Le carnaval des animaux: Le Cygne | Schubert: | String Quintet in C major, D956 | Schumann: | Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traümerei |
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| |  | Haydn - Complete Solo Keyboard Music, Volume 9Early Divertimento Sonatas
Haydn: | Piano Sonata No. 1 in G major, Hob.XVI:8 Piano Sonata No. 2 in C major, Hob.XVI:7 Piano Sonata No. 3 in F major, Hob.XVI:9 Piano Sonata No. 4 in G major, Hob.XVI:G1 Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major, Hob.XVI:11 Piano Sonata No. 6 in C major, Hob.XVI:10 Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Hob.XVII:D1 Piano Sonata No. 8 in A major, Hob.XVI:5 Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, Hob.XVI:4 Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, Hob.XVI:1 Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Hob.XVI:2 Piano Sonata No. 12 in A major, Hob.XVI:12 Piano Sonata No. 13 in G major, Hob.XVI:6 Piano Sonata No. 14 in C major, Hob.XVI:3 Piano Sonata No. 15 in E major, Hob.XVI:13 Piano Sonata No. 16 in D major, Hob.XVI:14 Piano Sonata No. 17 in E flat major, Hob.deest Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Hob.deest Piano Sonata No. 19 in E minor, Hob.deest Piano Sonata No. 20 in B flat major, Hob.XVI:18 |
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Ekaterina Derzhavina (piano) | 
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Olbertz’s recordings of all Haydn’s Piano Sonatas enable the development of one of the most important “avant-garde composers” of Viennese Classicism to be followed in an exemplary way. The almost fifty works abound in surprises, and Olbertz interprets them with great clarity, elegance and esprit. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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