Haydn: Piano Sonatas
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Composer: Franz Joseph HaydnPerformer: Marc-Andr? Hamelin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Allegro molto
- Allegro innocentemente
- Presto
- Allegretto moderato
- Adagio
- Finale. Presto
- Allegro
- Allegro di molto
- Allegro moderato
- Adagio
- Finale. Presto
- Moderato
- Adagio
- Finale. Presto
- Moderato
- Menuetto - Trio - Menuetto da capo
- Rondo. Presto
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Finale. Presto
- Allegro moderato
- Menuet
- Finale. Presto
- Allegro con brio
- Largo e sostenuto
- Finale. Presto ma non troppo
Music reviews of Haydn: Piano Sonatas
Music Review: Haydn Meets the 21rst Century
Rating: 5 Stars
I can't quit listening to these performances. I love them.
It is very interesting to read so many divergent reviews. That tells you something about the performance; and it is this: These are Sonatas by Marc-Andre Hamelin, based, note for note, on Haydn. And that's the kind of playing some will like very much and some will equally dislike. Glenn Gould, more than any other pianist, typified this sort of interpretation. At the extreme were his interpretations of Mozart and the late Beethoven sonatas. I happen to like his Mozart, but I would never try to defend them as anything Mozart would have remotely imagined.
I consider it the stamp of an artist. There are literally thousands of proficient, professional pianist who can play perfectly competent Haydn, and their playing is virtually indistinguishable. There is no mistaking Hamelin's performances for any other in the repertoire.
Hamelin's Haydn sparkles. Hamelin's Haydn can hardly keep himself seated on the piano bench - his wig falls off, the buttons of his waistcoat pop, he bounces gleefully as he plays. This is Haydn like you've never heard him - impish, vituosic, full of verve and spritely. His crescendos truly crescendo. His touch is light and coy.
To which I say: FINALLY.
I am *so* bored with all the polite, "mature", drawing room performances of Haydn. One of the more negative reviews compares these performances to Vivaldi rather than the "relaxed Josef Haydn". If that's the kind of Haydn you prefer (and this is the way Haydn has been performed for most of the 20th century) then you probably won't like these performances. For my part, I'm willing to go out on a limb and state that while Haydn was probably not as virtuosic as Hamelin, this is how contemporaries probably "heard" Haydn - exciting, impish, spritely.
I don't, in the least, find these performances vapid, senseless or just plain silly. Hamelin does not treat Haydn with the "reverence" some listeners might prefer. He meets Haydn like a delighted friend. I don't find the fast tempos silly. I find them energetic and joyful.
The playing is colorful with agile shading, the phrases and rhythmic ideas are impishly enjoyed. These are not the performances of a romantic.
I can well understand why some would not like these performances. Where I disagree is in the assertion that these are "bad" performances. They most definitely are not. They will appeal to some, depending on what they value, and they will definitely *not* appeal to others - most likely those who value a more romantic, nuanced and introverted performance. These performances are for the extrovert.
By the way, Haydn's life overlapped that of Vivaldi's.
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