Release Date: 09 November 2018
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5060216342771
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This new album is the first volume in a series of new recordings in which the illustrious pianist Roman Rabinovich will record the complete piano sonatas written by Haydn, for FHR.
Haydn was a prominent and prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period and composed 62 keyboard sonatas. Written over a 40-year period or so, and displaying a variety of styles, the earlier sonatas were written for harpsichord and the last for the newly developed hammer-action fortepiano.
Rabinovich is a brilliant interpreter of Haydn. Indeed, The New York Times hailed Rabinovich's Haydn performances as 'admirable interpretations, performed with a rich, full-blooded sound, singing lines and witty dexterity'.
Praised by The New York Times for his 'uncommon sensitivity and feeling', Roman Rabinovich has performed throughout Europe and the United States in venues such as London's Wigmore Hall, Leipzig's Gewandhaus, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Millennium Stage of Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Lauded as 'a master of tone-colour' (International Piano, 2018), Rabinovich made his Israel Philharmonic début under the baton of Zubin Mehta at age ten. He was a top prizewinner at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2008, while in 2015, he was selected by Sir András Schiff as one of three pianists for the inaugural Building Bridges series, created to highlight young pianists of unusual promise.
Rabinovich has earned critical praise for his explorations of the piano music of Haydn, which include a 42 sonata cycle at the Bath International Festival, and partial cycles at the Lammermuir Festival and ChamberFest Cleveland. The New York Times has hailed Rabinovich's Haydn performances as 'admirable interpretations, performed with a rich, full-blooded sound, singing lines and witty dexterity'.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"….this first volume in what will be a complete set of the Haydn piano sonatas oeuvre is both fascinating and hugely impressive…. This 'complete' Haydn may oust Rudolf Buchbinder's magisterial set as the benchmark recording" (performance ***** / recording ***** BBC Music Magazine)
"Rabinovich is up there with Bavouzet in this repertoire… Delightful." (••••• International Piano Magazine)
"The ?rst two discs are a foretaste of splendours to come, with his singing cantabile in the adagio to the C major Sonata No 36 and beguiling virtuosity in Haydn's brilliantly entertaining presto and prestissimo ?nales" (Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times)
"Rabinovich responds to this ever-inventive music with a broad palette of tone and touch, sweetly singing in the cantabile slow movements and with fluent dexterity in the fingery fast movements….the development of the cycle as it unfolds will, without doubt, be well worth further listening" (Gramophone)
"The energy and enthusiasm held by the artist for this music, his technical and emotive gifts, and the overall sound are all noteworthy." (****1/2 Audaub.com)
"The spread of invention in the Haydn sonatas presented here is remarkable, and Rabinovich seems to delight in each and every turn, from the harmonic delights of the first movement of No 29 to the sweet yet almost exploratory manner of CPE Bach in the Divertimento." (Classical Music Magazine, *****)
"This is superb playing. Exceptionally good…more please" (The Arts Desk)
"This is graceful, gracious Haydn… Rabinovich is exceptionally attentive to the scores…" (Fanfare)
"…this pianist has great technique and beautiful, expressive ideas about Haydn that repay close attention…." (American Record Guide)
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
Roman Rabinovich
