Name: Haydn: Piano Sonatas Volume 2
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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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: CHAN10668
Label: Chandos
Series: Bavouzet Haydn Piano Sonatas
Length: 68 minutes

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Haydn: Sonata No. 48 in C Major, Hob. XVI:35

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I. Allegro con brio

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II. Adagio

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III. Finale. Allegro

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Haydn: Sonata No. 32 in G Minor, Hob. XVI:44

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I. Moderato

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II. Allegretto

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Haydn: Sonata No. 50 in D Major, Hob. XVI:37

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I. Allegro con brio

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II. Largo e sostenuto

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III. Finale. Presto, ma non troppo

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Haydn: Sonata No. 19 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis

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I. Adagio

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II. Allegro

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III. Finale. Tempo di Menuet

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Haydn: Sonata No. 20 in B-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:18

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I. Allegro moderato

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II. Moderato

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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.

Reviews

May 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.

June 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

July 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.

April 2011

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.

16th 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.

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Volume 2

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