Listeners seeking a single box of all Haydn's solo keyboard music performed on a fortepiano and recorded in digital sound need look no further. Pianist Ronald Brautigam's 15-disc set for BIS contains everything the great Austrian classical composer wrote for the instrument: the 63 piano sonatas and the 25 miscellaneous works, plus The Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross in a keyboard arrangement authorized by the composer. Thankfully, this set has more virtues than mere completeness. Brautigam is a skilled pianist ...
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Listeners seeking a single box of all Haydn's solo keyboard music performed on a fortepiano and recorded in digital sound need look no further. Pianist Ronald Brautigam's 15-disc set for BIS contains everything the great Austrian classical composer wrote for the instrument: the 63 piano sonatas and the 25 miscellaneous works, plus The Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross in a keyboard arrangement authorized by the composer. Thankfully, this set has more virtues than mere completeness. Brautigam is a skilled pianist who makes the switch to fortepiano with no perceptible problems. Here, his touch is light, his tone strong, and his sound full without being clangorous. Beyond technique, however, Brautigam is also a talented interpreter and his playing here is ideally adapted to Haydn. His early sonatas are breezy, his middle sonatas witty, and his late sonatas are, in terms of style and substance, the equal of any Mozart ever wrote for the instrument. Some might wish Brautigam had taken a less...
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Add this copy of Haydn: Complete Music for Solo Keyboard to cart. $99.91, very good condition, Sold by Sunshine State Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lithia, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by BIS.