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Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas No. 52, 32, 31, 46 - Anton Nel

Haydn: Keyboard Sonatas No. 52, 32, 31, 46 - Anton Nel

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One of the happiest trends in the music world is a growing interest in comprehensive editions of a composer's work. For somebody as prolific as Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) such study has paid off in revelation to scholars, performers and listeners. Although Haydn was crucially important in the development and perfection of both the symphony and the string quartet, it is only within the last 15 years that all 108 authenticated symphonies and approximately 60 string quartets have become available on records. One suspects that the sheer bulk of Haydn's music scares off some interpreters; when one considers the vast amount of material he wrote (200 plus pieces for a glorified version of the viola da gamba called the baryton, for example) it is almost reassuring that we have only 46 songs from his pen. The keyboard sonatas have fared better than much of Haydn's work in other genres (the operas, for example, which languish in libraries and on deleted recordings). Indeed, some of the sonatas now seem to be pushing their way, slowly but inexorably, into the standard repertory. And listeners throughout the world are discovering the extraordinary fusion of style, wit, invention and craft that characterizes these remarkable works. The musicologist Konrad Wolff, a pupil of Artur Schnabel and the author of Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music, offers two possible reasons why pianists have been slow to take on Haydn's sonatas. "First of all, it was generally believed that because Haydn was not a concert pianist performing regularly in public, like Mozart and Beethoven, he could not compose idiomatically for the keyboard," Wolff wrote in his study Masters of the Keyboard.
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If you are a concert pianist intent on establishing an international reputation, starting out by recording Haydn sonatas may not be the easiest way to do it. Yet, if you are able to illuminate the music to the degree that Nel does, it is nevertheless a remarkable tour deforce.
--Jon Tuska, Fanfare
11/29/2024
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