Release Date: 03 October 2025
Label: Lawo
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090020183350
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Haydn inspired
Description
Haydn's keyboard sonatas, more than sixty in total, span almost his entire career. However, in the 1780's the genre became much less of a preoccupation for him while he concentrated more on string quartets and piano trios. An increasing number of commissions further added to his workload. Then, in the period when he was preparing for the second of his two visits to London (1794-5), we find the sonata genre crowded out by his other commitments. Nevertheless, the sonatas Hoboken XVI: 48 to 52 (1789-94) are among the most richly satisfying compositions of Haydn's full maturity.
Haydn is the most unaccountably neglected of all the great composers. Few concert-managers find any reason to accommodate one of his inexhaustibly inventive symphonies in orchestral programmes. The equally wonderful string quartets fare rather better, regularly featuring in their respective repertoire. Haydn's keyboard sonatas, though still generally undervalued, are championed by more pianists than used to be the case forty years ago, when John McCabe wrote of "the shameful neglect of Haydn's sonatas. There can hardly be another such corpus of outstanding and fascinating works by one of the great masters so wilfully ignored by performers ..."
Tracklisting
Amalie Stalheim
Tine Thing Helseth; Bergen Philharmonic; Petr Popelka
Engegard Quartet
Berit Norbakken; Arctic Philharmonic; Hennig Kraggerud
Oslo Kammerakademi; David Friedemann Strunck
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko
Oda Voltersvik
Lars Notto Birkeland, Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps, Peter Szilway, Eirik Raude
Clara Schumann
Dor Gidon Amran
Wolfgang Gluxham
Vesa Lassila
Ursina Maria Braun
Tomasz Kamieniak
Tatiana Kozlova
Stephane Mottoul
