JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)

 

Piano Sonatas Volume 2

 

CD1

Piano Sonata in E major HOB XVI:31

Piano Sonata in D major HOB XVI:42

Piano Sonata in C major HOB XVI:35

Piano Sonata in E minor HOB XVI:34

Piano Sonata in A major HOB XVI:26

Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major HOB XVII:4

 

CD2

Sonata ‘Un piccolo divertimento’ (Variations) in F minor HOB XVII:6

Piano Sonata in E flat major HOB XVI:49

Piano Sonata in D major HOB XVI:33

Piano Sonata in G major HOB XVI:39

Piano Sonata in C major HOB XVI:48

 

Marc-André Hamelin

 

Marc-André Hamelin’s second volume of Haydn Piano Sonatas, released in a year where new Haydn recordings are prominent, should surely match the critical and commercial success of the first. Some of Haydn’s most alluring and appealing keyboard works are recorded here. The surprising (to some) emotional range of the composer is fully evident in the extraordinarily sensitive and intimate Sonata in E flat major No. 49, written for Maria Anna von Genzinger, and the profoundly felt Andante con variazioni in F minor, the composition of which coincided with her death.

 

Total Duration: 152'57

 

Hyperion 2cds CDA67710