Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. More Bavouzet – and more delights, as the French pianist continues his admirable survey of the 50-plus Haydn piano ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Haydn composed 60 sonatas for the piano between the 1750s and 1795. Though six are lost, it represents a significant body of work and, having fallen rather out of fashion in recent years, is now being ...

Almost every major record label seems to have an archive of recordings by Sviatoslav Richter, whether made in the studio or taken from his recitals. Unlike many great pianists, Richter was never ...

Sonata for Keyboard No. 46 Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Joseph Haydn, Composer Sonata for Keyboard No. 56 Marc-André Hamelin, Piano Joseph Haydn, Composer Sonata for Keyboard No. 48 Joseph Haydn, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the course of 2023 a select number of big recording projects came to fruition, prime among them Jean-Efflam ...

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Haydn’s piano sonatas are not the work of a keyboard virtuoso. And the “big statement”-style of performing them is one of their major enemies. Marc-André Hamelin may be a virtuoso, but he has divined ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Haydn piano sonatas, a Shostakovich explosion and the fantastical opera “Sweet Land” are among the highlights. Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi) Not all ...

Sonata for Keyboard No. 50 Joseph Haydn, Composer Olivier Cavé, Piano Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movements: G (L333) Olivier Cavé, Piano Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Sonata (un piccolo ...

Hamelin is such an impressive champion of the 19th-century, high-Romantic piano repertory, with the technique and the musical temperament to match, that it comes as a bit of surprise to find that he ...

If you like to hear Haydn sonatas crisply delivered, i's dotted, t's crossed, with good fingerwork, and in a clean recording, then the Chandos cycle by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet should have ...