Thanks for taking us all on this inspiring journey Chris. Being a man of even temperament & little ego, Haydn would have taken your occasional criticisms during the journey in the spirit in which they were intended. As a hard-working musician, who just happened to be a genius, he would have appreciated your completer / finisher ethos. He would also have recognised your determination to give due respect to his entire piano sonata output. Thank you again.
Bravo Chris! The cycle is complete now, and i am very Happy to notice that you have put at the end of It this Brilliant Sonata ( that was my first one, when i studied some of these marvellous creations by Haydn!). Great work, here in this Sonata and in all the corpus as a whole, bravissimo congratulations!
Fantastic. I first heard this sonata on button accordion (one of my favorite instruments, which I plan to learn someday), from Vivaine Chassot, and it really opened up the world of Haydn's keyboard music for me, which I had previously more or less neglected. Unrelated, but have you ever considered recording some Clementi? I'm a huge fan of Classical sonatas, and Clementi in particular.
Thanks ! I like Clementi, as I do Kuhlau (the two forever linked by their presence in a Sonatinen album I had lessons from). I've never thought about recording some... so much to do ! I did record a Czerny Sonatina though !
Bravo for the full cycle! I came at first to the Sonata Hob. XVI:D1, which you play on the piano. Was that your former Gaveau? If that is so, the instrument was perfectly adapted to this style of music. I was under the impression that the letter and number was a Hoboken way of cataloguing a piece that was dubious Haydn, Correct we if I am wrong. Reading your description... You drive a knife into me and twist it in the wound! I can never forget seeing the complete Könemann Haydn set at the bookshop and NOT buying it! I told myself. later... And later never came and they are no longer in business.
Thanks ! I'm not sure about that numbering, to me it seems more like a later 'extension' to the Hoboken numbering. For no particular reason I put these ones at the top of the playlist. Yes the Gaveau sounded well in Haydn. But I don't miss it at all 😀
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Bravo, Chris!
Thanks for taking us all on this inspiring journey Chris. Being a man of even temperament & little ego, Haydn would have taken your occasional criticisms during the journey in the spirit in which they were intended. As a hard-working musician, who just happened to be a genius, he would have appreciated your completer / finisher ethos. He would also have recognised your determination to give due respect to his entire piano sonata output. Thank you again.
Thank you Mark ! I too like to think the composer would appreciate my work on his Sonatas, and forgive my bitching about all those Minuets 😁
wao thanks for playing Haydn’s beautiful sonatas! Very inspirational!
Bravo Chris! The cycle is complete now, and i am very Happy to notice that you have put at the end of It this Brilliant Sonata ( that was my first one, when i studied some of these marvellous creations by Haydn!).
Great work, here in this Sonata and in all the corpus as a whole, bravissimo congratulations!
Thank you Alessandro ! Great to receive such praise for my efforts 😀
Fantastic. I first heard this sonata on button accordion (one of my favorite instruments, which I plan to learn someday), from Vivaine Chassot, and it really opened up the world of Haydn's keyboard music for me, which I had previously more or less neglected.
Unrelated, but have you ever considered recording some Clementi? I'm a huge fan of Classical sonatas, and Clementi in particular.
Thanks ! I like Clementi, as I do Kuhlau (the two forever linked by their presence in a Sonatinen album I had lessons from). I've never thought about recording some... so much to do ! I did record a Czerny Sonatina though !
Bravo for the full cycle!
I came at first to the Sonata Hob. XVI:D1, which you play on the piano. Was that your former Gaveau? If that is so, the instrument was perfectly adapted to this style of music.
I was under the impression that the letter and number was a Hoboken way of cataloguing a piece that was dubious Haydn, Correct we if I am wrong.
Reading your description... You drive a knife into me and twist it in the wound! I can never forget seeing the complete Könemann Haydn set at the bookshop and NOT buying it! I told myself. later... And later never came and they are no longer in business.
Thanks ! I'm not sure about that numbering, to me it seems more like a later 'extension' to the Hoboken numbering. For no particular reason I put these ones at the top of the playlist.
Yes the Gaveau sounded well in Haydn. But I don't miss it at all 😀