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Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sonata in C major, Hob. XV:27
1] Allegro
2] Andante
3] Presto
Sonata in E major, Hob. XV:28
4] Allegro moderato
5] Allegretto
6] Finale: Allegro
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Sonata in D major, op.27 nr.2
7] Allegro
8] Polonaise: Un poco andante
9] Rondeau: Molto vivace
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in E flat major, Hob. XV:29
10] Poco Allegretto
11] Andante et innocentemente
12] Finale "in the German Style": Presto assai
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On this recording the grand piano is the focal point, it is the first commercially released CD that presents Haydn’s well-known and widely appreciated trios Hob. XV:27-29 on a piano almost identical to the now lost Longman & Broderip grand piano.
Haydn allowed himself to be inspired by the English piano, which, in comparison with its Viennese counterpart, resonated longer, continued to ring through its inefficient dampers, and produced more homogeneous, thicker sounds. In his trios Hob. XV:27-29 Haydn combined novel pianistic effects with equally striking coloristic ones in the strings. From a modern perspective, we like to call the result ‘romantic’. Back in 1795, however, it was first and foremost ‘English’.
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