Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 10 '2022

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: I. Allegro
02. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: II. Adagio
03. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIIa. Tempo di Menuetto, con
Variazioni [Tema]
04. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIIb. Variazione I
05. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIIc. Variazione II
06. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIId. Variazione III
07. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIIe. Variazione IV
08. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIIf. Variazione V
09. Sonata No. 45 in A Major, Hob. XVI:30: IIIg. Variazione VI
10. Sonata No. 28 in D Major, Hob. XIV:5: I. (Moderato)
11. Sonata No. 28 in D Major, Hob. XIV:5: II. Menuet
12. Sonata No. 4 in G Major, Hob. XVI:G1: I. Allegro
13. Sonata No. 4 in G Major, Hob. XVI:G1: II. Menuetto
14. Sonata No. 4 in G Major, Hob. XVI:G1: III. Finale
15. Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI:50: I. Allegro
16. Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI:50: II. Adagio
17. Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI:50: III. Allegro molto
18. Sonata No. 3 in F Major, Hob. XVI:9: I. Allegro
19. Sonata No. 3 in F Major, Hob. XVI:9: II. Menuet
20. Sonata No. 3 in F Major, Hob. XVI:9: III. Scherzo
21. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: I. [Arietta]
22. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione I
23. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione II
24. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione III
25. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione IV
26. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione V
27. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione VI
28. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione VII
29. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione VIII
30. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione IX
31. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione X
32. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: Variazione XI
33. Arietta con 12 Variazioni in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVII:3: 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". 

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