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Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Badura-Skoda
Haydn: Sonates et Variations pour le Pianoforte
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Keyboard Sonata in A flat major, H. 16/46: 1. Allegro moderato
2. Keyboard Sonata in A flat major, H. 16/46: 2. Adagio
3. Keyboard Sonata in A flat major, H. 16/46: 3. Finale. Presto
4. Andante with variations for piano in F minor, H. 17/6
5. Keyboard Sonata in C minor, H. 16/20: 1. Moderato
6. Keyboard Sonata in C minor, H. 16/20: 2. Andante con moto
7. Keyboard Sonata in C minor, H. 16/20: 3. Finale. Allegro
8. Variations for piano on the hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (arrangement of string quartet Op. 76/3, 2nd mvt.)
9. Adagio for keyboard in F major, H. 17/9

CD Details

All Artists: Franz Joseph Haydn, Paul Badura-Skoda
Title: Haydn: Sonates et Variations pour le Pianoforte
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arcana Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 6/9/2009
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8033891690151

Synopsis

Album Description

The legendary Viennese pianist has issued a new recording of five piano masterworks by Joseph Haydn, on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death. Features Johann Schantz's fortepiano from Badura-Skoda's collection, the most appropriate instrument available today for interpreting Haydn's music. In a letter to Marianne von Genzinger dated July 4, 1790, Haydn refers to Johann Schantz as "the best pianoforte maker." Booklet contains notes (in four languages) by Badura-Skoda himself.

CD Reviews

Superb Haydn on an instrument he loved

Mark Ringer | New York | 09/05/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The 1790 Schantz fortepiano used on this recording is from a Vienese maker whom Haydn is on record as favoring over all others. Badura-Skoda has recorded extensively on this instrument (including versions of most of the present works on now deleted Astree discs). It is a pleasure to welcolme these new intepretations of Sonatas #33 and #31 (the later a speciality of this pianist.) These new versions are often more passionate in their declamation from the performances of some 20 years ago. Anyone new to the earlier keyboard may take a minute or two to register the great difference in sonics from a modern concert grand. But Badura-Skoda's exceptionally sensitive differentiation of touch and dynamics, mostly impossible on a modern instrument, make for engrossing listening. The F minor Variations, Haydn's greatest piano work, has seldom been as movingly rendered on disc."