Rating: 5/5
Review:
Excellent Haydn
This, the eighth volume of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's projected complete
cycle, is an excellent disc of three of Haydn's early piano sonatas,
two much more substantial late sonatas and two excellent
free-standing single-movement pieces. I love Haydn's piano music; in
my view it is the equal of Mozart's and deserves to be much better
known. It has all of Haydn's trademark wit and joy, but also real
tenderness and beauty and a depth that marks it out as genuinely
great piano music. Bavouzet does it proud.
Bavouzet's
admirable technique allows him to get right into the heart of the
music. He articulates it very crisply and preserves the structures
so essential to Haydn but uses just the right amount of rubato and
subtle phrasing to convey the music's meaning and give it real
character. He understands, crucially, that Haydn often said serious
things in a witty way so that the depth comes through the often
melodious and genial air.
With
excellent recorded sound and very full notes this is a very good disc
all round. This series now stands with my much-loved Brendel and
Schornsheim recordings in my affections, which is high praise indeed.
Very warmly recommended.
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