★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDHaydnString Quartets Op.76 No. 1, Op. 50 No. 1, Op. 77 No. 1Quatuor ModiglianiMirare2014 The motto of the Modigliani Quartet, founded in Paris in 2003, is taken from the artist whose name they borrowed: "Your true duty is to save your dream." Haydn deserves nothing less. The father of the string quartet wrote 68 works in the form. The Modiglianis have chosen three, from the great sets Op 50, Op 76 and Op 77...
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2014-03-09
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDJoseph HaydnHaydn's Nature - String Quartets Opp. 50/6, 64/5 & 76/4Matangi QuartetChallenge Classics2013 Three of the finest quartets by the master of the genre, collected under the slightly bewildering title Haydn's Nature - which presumably refers to the three popular subtitles (Sunrise, the Frog and the Bird) but is not elucidated by the rambling sleevenote, which considers Haydn's relationship to green issues...
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2013-12-15
★★★★★
Haydn's late masses are too often passed over in favour of The Creation and The Seasons, but they contain some of his very greatest music, notably this Missa in Angustiis, nicknamed the "Lord Nelson". The eruption of warlike fanfares where one least expects it in the serene Benedictus, the exuberance of the choral fugues, the stratospheric writing for soprano, and the ethereal vision of the afterlife in Et vitam venturi saeculi - all add up to a unique setting, freshly captured here by the...
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2013-11-17
★★★★★
This continuing series is turning into a real classic: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has an infectious sense of the witty fun that underlies so many of Haydn's inventions, and the finale of the D major Sonata No 30 fairly fizzes with joy. But the real discovery here is a new version of the wonderful, touching Variations in F minor...
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2012-09-17
★★★★★
This third disc in Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's ongoing exploration of Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas is the best yet. In his first two instalments, the lucidity of touch, and depth of insight were outstanding. To this he brings a more consistent use of enlivening decoration in repeats, and a still firmer grasp of the long-breathed paragraphing behind Haydn's neatly demarcated sentences...
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2011-11-28
★★★★★
wrote around 50 keyboard sonatas over a period spanning nearly as many years, from the early 1750s through to the mid 1790s - most of his professional life. Few of them have become part of the mainstream piano repertory, no doubt partly because - like those of his contemporary - Haydn's sonatas are often more intimate and less immediately ear-catching than, say, his symphonic music...
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2013-04-23
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDFranz Joseph HaydnHaydn: Piano Trios/ Vol. 1: Hob Xv 24 In D/ Hob Xv 25 In GNoneNaxos2011 Heard far less often than his string quartets because of their scoring, Haydn's late piano trios are marvels of lyrical subtlety from the period of his greatest maturity in the 1790s...
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2011-08-22
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDAlfred SchnittkeHaydn: Seven Last WordWladimir JurowskiLPO2011 Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Savour on the Cross is riddled with confusion to which this new LPO Live recording unfortunately adds. Haydn wrote three versions - an orchestral work, a string quartet and an oratorio - and the jury is still out as to which is the best...
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2011-02-14
★★★★★
The French pianist renowned for Debussy has now turned his attention to Haydn, and the results are effervescent and dazzling. He starts his complete series with a well-chosen group of four sonatas, including the B minor No 47, with its witty finale, and the marvellous A flat major No 31, with its serenely baroque Adagio...
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2010-04-09
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