Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN20191
Release: 2022
Size: 1.09 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sonata No. 45, Hob. XVI: 30
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Tempo di Menuetto, con Variazioni [Tema]
04. Variazione I
05. Variazione II
06. Variazione III
07. Variazione IV
08. Variazione V
09. Variazione VI
Sonata No. 28, Hob. XIV: 5
10. I. (Moderato)
11. II. Menuet
Sonata No. 4, Hob. XVI: G1
12. I. Allegro
13. II. Menuetto
14. III. Finale
Sonata No. 60, Hob. XVI: 50
15. I. Allegro
16. II. Adagio
17. III. Allegro molto
Sonata No. 3, Hob. XVI: 9
18. I. Allegro
19. II. Menuet
20. III. Scherzo
Arietta con 12 Variazioni, Hob. XVII: 3
21. I. [Arietta]
22. Variazione I
23. Variazione II
24. Variazione III
25. Variazione IV
26. Variazione V
27. Variazione VI
28. Variazione VII
29. Variazione VIII
30. Variazione IX
31. Variazione X
32. Variazione XI
33. Variazione XII
His recordings and concert performances have long established Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation. This latest album – the tenth – in his cycle of the complete Haydn Sonatas is built around the Grand Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:50, a late work the first movement of which is one of the most highly developed that Haydn ever conceived for the keyboard.
Bavouzet has surrounded this with less well-known works: two very early sonatas (No. 3 and No. 4) provide a stark contrast to the later works (No. 28 and No. 45). The album ends with the Arietta con 12 Variazioni.
Bavouzet notes: “The Variations in E-flat major and the Sonata in A major, Hob. XVI:30 were for me the marvellous revelations of this programme. In the E-flat major Variations (the lovely theme of which Mozart borrowed in his Sonata, K. 282!), the chief question was to decide whether to repeat the theme at the end, as certain editions recommend. After several experiments, I finally opted for a solution perhaps a little anachronistic, by construing the entire last variation as a long, gradual crescendo which takes us from the sombre and serious atmosphere of the preceding variation towards the brilliant light of the unadorned chords that conclude this magnificent cycle”.