Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob. 16

On this CD:

1. Keyboard Sonata in D major, H. 16/37
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performed by Gilead Mishory

2. Keyboard Sonata in B minor, H. 16/32
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performed by Gilead Mishory

3. Keyboard Sonata in F major, H. 16/23
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performed by Gilead Mishory

4. Keyboard Sonata in C sharp minor, H. 16/36
Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performed by Gilead Mishory

Tracks:

Sonata No.47 For Piano In B Minor, Hob. XVI:32: I. Allegro moderato
Sonata No.47 For Piano In B Minor, Hob. XVI:32: II. Menuet
Sonata No.47 For Piano In B Minor, Hob. XVI:32: III. Finale. Presto
Sonata Nol.53 For Piano in E Minor, Hob.XVI:34: I. Presto
Sonata Nol.53 For Piano in E Minor, Hob.XVI:34: II. Adagio
Sonata Nol.53 For Piano in E Minor, Hob.XVI:34: III. Vivace Molto
Sonata No.32 For Piano In F Minot, Hob.XVI:44: I. Moderato
Sonata No.32 For Piano In F Minot, Hob.XVI:44: II. Allegreto
Sonata No.59 For Piano In E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:49: I. Allegro
Sonata No.59 For Piano In E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:49: II. Adagio e Cantabile
Sonata No.59 For Piano In E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:49: III. Finale. Tempo di Minuet

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Emanuel Ax obviously loves Haydn's piano sonatas. This is his second CD of them, and I wouldn't be surprised if he had to argue with his record company to make the discs; Haydn doesn't sell nearly as well as Mozart. But each of these sonatas is a genuine masterpiece, filled with imagination. And, frankly, quality aside, Haydn's piano sonatas are less predictable than Mozart's, less regular in form and quirkier. Ax plays the music fairly straight, expressively but without romantic mannerisms. This is a thoroughly enjoyable disc, and maybe if enough of us buy it Ax will be allowed to make another one. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Listen first...........2006-06-26

I read numerous rave reviews about this disc before I bought it.
The pieces are interesting and varied, the playing and recording quality is of course excellent, but...

...I don't enjoy listening to it that much, and it's one of those forgotten discs that gets pushed to the edge of the shelf. I don't know what it is. To my ear Ax's playing doesn't feel so sympatheitc, rather it seems to be more an intellectual exercise (that often bandied about criticism).
I don't know what the problem is - I have several discs of Haydn sonatas that I just enjoy more, for instance Jando's Volume 10 on Naxos, which is wonderful (the best of his volumes). But these are earlier, simpler sonatas, as compared to these later ones.
Maybe it's just my taste - there are certainly plenty of people out there who know their Haydn and like this disc, but I'm not one of them. Rather than say 'don't buy this', I'd instead urge potential buyers to listen to as much of it as they can first and then make up their minds.

AX CONTINUES HIS EXCELLENT HAYDN TRAVERSAL.......2000-12-01

I was very much impressed by Ax's genuine feel for Haydn in his first CD of sonatas, and the way he caressed the music. It all seemed perfectly balanced. My own love for Haydn's sonatas goes back years (and years). Raised on the old Vox Box sets, with Klien, Kyriakou, Galling, given to me by my father (may he be sitting next to Poppa Haydn somewhere in the celestial firmament), I could never find a pianist who duplicated the sonatas as I remembered them.

Until I heard Ax play.

Listen, for example, to his handling of the Adagio E Cantabile from Sonata No. 59 in E-flat, or the perky Allegretto from Sonata No. 32 in G Minor. This is radiant, love-filled playing that comes through absolutely.

If we keep our fingers crossed, maybe Sony will be smart enough underwrite a complete Haydn Sonatas series with Ax. This would be something worth waiting for!

Excellent, warm, comfortable sound, sans ambience. Highly recommended.

[Running time: 61:02]

Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Hob. 33, 36, 43, 45, 46)

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CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE
Emmanuel Ax playing Haydn...

Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Hob. 33, 36, 43, 45, 46)

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ASIN: B00008WT4W
Release Date: 2003-04-15

Tracks:

I. Allegro Moderato
II. Adagio
III. Finale. Presto
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Tempo Di Minuetto
I. Moderato
II. Andante
III. Finale. Allegro Di Molto
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II. Scherzando. Allegro Con Brio
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II. Menuetto
III. Rondo. Presto

Customer Reviews:

CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE.......2006-09-01

Released in 2003, after a nearly ten year hiatus, this third volume is what finally appears to be a bonafide Ax Haydn sonatas traversal; but, unfortunately, given the lapses in real time its completion may take decades. The upside to this is, however, the evolution of the artist and his perception of these works. In this latest recording, Ax eschews his former romantic proclivities and adopts a patently classical stance. Somewhat now restrained is the memorable sensitivity Ax brought to Haydn, the warm illumination and characteristic gentleness. Instead, the sonatas bristle, the playing articulate, manicured and direct. Through spare use of pedal, Ax delivers clean attacks and crisp execution, tending to propel the compositions with a somewhat austere virtuosity. This cool approach seems anomalous for Ax and, as well, Haydn. Distance does not, in this case, make the heart grow fonder. The recording, in addition, only accentuates what may be the artist's disappointing new preferences for frugal sonority, percussive staccato and stylistic objectivity.

[Running time: 77:33]

Emmanuel Ax playing Haydn..........2004-05-18

I discovered this album via this year's Grammy Awards. Yes, I know these awards are sometimes politically motivated, but regardless, the sonatas and Emmanuel Ax' performance are wonderful and impeccable. The first movement of the 29th Sonata is a delight and like much of Haydn has some basis in Austrian folk songs. You hear that in Haydn anyway and this is a good example. Because he uses fewer notes than his wunderkind, Wolfgang Mozart, the tones seem more memorable and truer. I am buying the other two Ax performances of Haydn's sonatas a result.

Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Hob:XVI, Nos. 42, 48-52

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SOME MAY ENJOY THESE REALIZATIONS...
Not Haydn!!!
Heavy Handed Haydn!
Interesting recordings
A Meeting of Musical Minds

Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Hob:XVI, Nos. 42, 48-52

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Tracks:

Sonata In D Major, Hob. XVI: 42: I. Andante con espressione
Sonata In D Major, Hob. XVI: 42: II. Vivace assai
Sonata In C Major, HOB. XVI: 48: I. Andante con espressione
Sonata In C Major, HOB. XVI: 48: II. Rondo: Presto
Sonata In E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 49: I. Allegro
Sonata In E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 49: II. Adagio e cantabile
Sonata In E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 49: III. Finale: Tempo di Minuet

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Sonata In C Major, Hob. XVI: 50: I. Allegro
Sonata In C Major, Hob. XVI: 50: II. Adagio
Sonata In C Major, Hob. XVI: 50: III. Allegro molto
Sonata In D Major, Hob. XVI: 51: I. Andante
Sonata In D Major, Hob. XVI: 51: II. Finale: Presto
Sonata In E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 52: I. Allegro
Sonata In E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 52: II. Adagio
Sonata In E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 52: III. Finale: Presto

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At one point in his life, Gould projected recording a complete Haydn sonata cycle. It's a terrible pity he never got to it, for if he had, the music itself would doubtless be more popular than it is today. Gould himself realized that Haydn's solo keyboard music was generally of higher quality than Mozart's, and we can only be grateful that he did get around to making this delightful set containing the last six sonatas. Aside from his gifts as a musician, Gould was also one of the funniest artists of this century, just as Haydn was in his day. This meeting of two great comics makes for some highly memorable listening. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

SOME MAY ENJOY THESE REALIZATIONS..........2006-05-19

I, however, as a GG fan of nearly 40 years find it sad that he wasted his last years tinkering around with Haydn's banalities.

Anyone who thinks Haydn was greater than Mozart has a screw loose; anyone who hates Gould's Mozart likewise has a screw loose.

When I think of the great pieces GG could have realized in his late days, it nearly makes me weep that he wasted his time on Haydn. GG should have instead completed his projected Scriabin cycle--at least giving us Scriabin's last five exquisite sonatas. Then, GG could have played and over-dubbed and played with his own recording Schoenberg's piano transcriptions of his two chamber symphonies. What a loss for humanity GG trifled with Haydn!

On the other hand, Gould was only a human being: he had his anxieties: perhaps Haydn's simplicities smoothed it out for him.

Anyway, from my view GG could almost do no wrong; therefore, some of you may enjoy these readings. Cheers.

Not Haydn!!!.......2005-05-25

This just is not Haydn.I am referring to the last of the sonatas where Gould is glibly parading his pianistic skills.Sounds more like a practice session.David Hurwitz has rightly called him more or less a joker!Hurwitz is dead wrong in including Joseph Haydn(not Papa Haydn-a condescending phrase)along with Gould.Haydn's sonatas are full of grace and sunny cheerfulness.There are also some incredible tender moments unmatched by any other composer(including Beethoven ,Mozart).Just to illustrate this listen to the same last sonata by Sviatoslav Richter.There is a great yearning and haunting tenderness(Totally murdered here by Gould!).Watch Richter perform this beautiful work in the DVD 'Richter:The Enigma'.Richter clearly explains the greatness of Haydn-The Freshness and Humaneness that is Franz Joseph Haydn.I also recommend Haydn's Piano Trios by the Beaux Arts Trio-Another marvellous collection.For a complete collection of Haydn's Piano sonatas I strongly recommend Jeno Jando on Naxos-Excellently performed and do not miss any of Richter's Haydn Sonatas wherever they are.

Heavy Handed Haydn!.......2005-02-16

This was actually the very first recordings of Haydn's Piano Sonatas that I ever heard. After they heightened my curiousity to a new high, I decided to try other artists performing these great works. First, 1989 and 2003 recordings from Emanual Ax, then Mikhail Pletnev. Compared to the others, Gould seems to give Haydn a heavy touch. At times he really pounds the keys hard! The music is ALWAYS compelling in his hands. Ax and Pletnev have a much softer almost "Chopinish" touch that to me, doesn't always work. Highly recommended!

Interesting recordings.......2004-08-02

Glenn Gould interest for Haydn was for many of his followers a weird challenge . Since Haydn piano music has always been ranked to intermediate priorities for the most of the pianists, his music has been somehow in a kind of zero atmosphere just waiting for someone who really loves his spirit.
The list is really reduced.
In the forties a spectacular hungarian pianist : Eddie Farnadi .
In the fifties , I remind two remarkable pianists: Nadia Reisenberg and Paul Badura Skoda.
In the sixties Backhaus.
In the early seventies , Malcom Frager . But in the last seventies and early eighties Andras Schiff recorded a very important series of Haydn piano works .
In this sense Gould decided to break the prejuices about the naifness about Haydn piano sonatas and certainly he played Haydn without that kind of affection so typical .
His performances became in a revelation . The frehness interpretative , the inherent humor sense , and the remarkable intention in considering a Haydn with his own musical stature and not viewed as a minor Mozart or a composer who belonged to a determined age .
These esthetic considerations affect in superlative degree the final product you play .
Consider for instance two brief examples . Are you sure about the Czerny sonata (Hilda Sommer)is just a minor work ? or the preschumannian sonata Op. 8 of Norbert Burgmuller (Adrian Ruiz) is just a classic and minor piece , only because Burgmuller lived only twenty six years? .
Gould accepted the challenge and won .
Acquire this set and you will be rewarded. Independently if you are a minor admirer about Haydn piano music. You will not be disappointed.

A Meeting of Musical Minds.......2004-05-28

This is my favorite Glenn Gould recording, as well as my favorite recording of any of Haydn's music. In a word, it is...Magical! This is also one of the best piano recordings I have ever heard. The joy, wit and humor of this music simply sparkle through your loudspeakers! You can't help but come away feeling enlightened and refreshed after listening to this disk. This is truly a "meeting of the minds". Although this recording is from the earliest days of digital, it sounds remarkable - whereas most digital recordings from this period sound like s**t. We are blessed that Glenn Gould was able to deliver to us this thoroughly enjoyable recording before his premature demise. I only wish that he had had the chance to record all of Haydn's piano sonatas.

Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Hob. 20, 23, 48, 50)

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COMFORTABLE, COZY, COMMENDABLE HAYDN

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Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Sonata No.58: I: Andante con espressione
Sonata No.58: II: Rondo: Presto
Sonata No.33: I: Moderato
Sonata No.33: II: Andante con moto
Sonata No.33: III: Finale: Allegro
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Customer Reviews:

A big shortcoming..........2004-07-17

I love Emanuel Ax and his playing, but there is a glaring flaw on this CD that cannot be overlooked. The recording quality of this CD is terrible! I first noticed it with the Rondo: Presto in the Sonata XVI:48 in C. Ax plays it wonderfully, but unfortunately, you can't hear it!!! The microphone sounds like it was hundreds of feet away, and all of the detail in his playing is lost in the endless reverberations you hear. Essentially, it sounds like he's holding the pedal down the entire time. Overall, this is not a good recording, and it distracts from Ax's wonderful playing.

COMFORTABLE, COZY, COMMENDABLE HAYDN.......2000-10-17

When I was in high school, I spent my summers working with my father in his microscope service and repair business out of Forest Hills, New York. Wherever there were microscopes to be cleaned or adjusted or replaced, in hospitals, schools, doctors' offices, we were there... doing, and dad ALWAYS brought his "transistor" radio with him... and we'd ALWAYS be listening to his favorite classical radio station, WQXR (out of NYC). I didn't have much say in the matter.

Dad was strictly a "classicist": Mozart and Haydn, with strong leanings towards the latter, especially the piano sonatas played by Rena Kyriakou, Walter Klien, Martin Galling on those exceptionally inexpensive and wonderful Vox "Box" recordings. He just adored them. [In fact, Sonata No. 33 (Hob. XVI:20), which Ax plays so well here, was the first Haydn sonata I ever heard.] He would lend me records, ask me what I thought... and soon enough I went out and bought these very same Vox sets, myself.

I still own them to this day. Wouldn't part with them.

At any rate, the reason I've gone off on a tangent about all this is because Emanuel Ax comes as close as possible to playing the Haydn sonatas as I love them played... and as they have been, as it were, etched into my musical soul.

One has the feeling that Ax loves playing these Haydn works. He is warm, gentle, lyrical and, yet, never fails to capture the easy humor in these sonatas. I suppose if I were to tackle these myself, I would play them just like this.

Ax gives Haydn a rare glow here in a collection of four of his most beautiful and memorable sonatas. The recorded sound, as well, if a tad ambient, is still gorgeous. For those who want only a single representative CD of these works, I couldn't suggest better.

[Running time: 63:57]

Franz Joseph Haydn: Five 1776 Sonatas & Fantasia In C major (Hob. XVI/27-31, Hob. XVII/4) - Lola Odiaga, Fortepiano

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Franz Joseph Haydn: Five 1776 Sonatas & Fantasia In C major (Hob. XVI/27-31, Hob. XVII/4) - Lola Odiaga, Fortepiano

Manufacturer: Albany Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000049N1
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Sonata In G Major - Landon No. 42, Hob. 16-27: Allegro con brio
Sonata In G Major - Landon No. 42, Hob. 16-27: Menuet
Sonata In G Major - Landon No. 42, Hob. 16-27: Finale. Presto
Sonata In E Flat - Landon No. 43, Hob. 16-28: Allegro moderato
Sonata In E Flat - Landon No. 43, Hob. 16-28: Menuet
Sonata In E Flat - Landon No. 43, Hob. 16-28: Finale. Presto
Sonata In F Major - Landon No. 44, Hob. 16-29: Moderato
Sonata In F Major - Landon No. 44, Hob. 16-29: Adagio
Sonata In F Major - Landon No. 44, Hob. 16-29: Tempo di Menuet
Sonata In A Major - Landon No. 45, Hob. 16-30: Allegro. Adagio
Sonata In A Major - Landon No. 45, Hob. 16-30: Tempo di Menuet
Sonata In E Major - Landon No. 46, Hob. 16-31: Moderato
Sonata In E Major - Landon No. 46, Hob. 16-31: Allegretto
Sonata In E Major - Landon No. 46, Hob. 16-31: Finale. Presto
Fantasia In C Major Hob. 17-4: Presto

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Lola Odiaga's ongoing series of Haydn keyboard music has migrated from one label to another, but always with excellent results. This Peruvian pianist has become a real Haydn expert, gracious one moment, quirky another, reflecting the shifting moods of Haydn's music. This collection of middle period sonatas will probably be completely new repertoire for most listeners, but there isn't a weak piece in the lot. The collection concludes with a sparkling Fantasia that's as much fun as anything Haydn ever wrote. Odiaga's is a wonderful series; I hope she gets to complete it. --Leslie Gerber

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Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob. 16

Manufacturer: Tudor
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ASIN: B00000AFON
Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

Kbd Son in D, Hob.XVI No.37: Allegro Con Brio
Kbd Son in D, Hob.XVI No.37: Largo E Sostenuto
Kbd Son in D, Hob.XVI No.37: Finale. Presto, Ma Non Troppo
Kbd Son in b, Hob.XVI No.32: Allegro Moderato
Kbd Son in b, Hob.XVI No.32: Menuet
Kbd Son in b, Hob.XVI No.32: Finale. Presto
Kbd Son in F, Hob.XVI No.23: Moderato
Kbd Son in F, Hob.XVI No.23: Adagio
Kbd Son in F, Hob.XVI No.23: Finale. Presto
Kbd Son in c#, Hob.XVI No.36: Moderato
Kbd Son in c#, Hob.XVI No.36: Scherzando. Allegro Con Brio
Kbd Son in c#, Hob.XVI No.36: Menuet. Moderato

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Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob.16

Manufacturer: Centaur
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ASIN: B0000057UT
Release Date: 1993-11-09

Tracks:

Presto
Adagio
Vivace Molto
Andante Con Espressione
Rondo: Presto
Allegretto Con Espressione
Presto
Allegro Moderato
Menuet E Trio
Finale: Presto
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Franz Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Works, Volume II (Piano Sonatas, Hob. XVI/40-42, 51, 52 / Andante con Variazioni, Hob. XVII/6) - Lola Odiaga, Fortepiano

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Franz Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Works, Volume II (Piano Sonatas, Hob. XVI/40-42, 51, 52 / Andante con Variazioni, Hob. XVII/6) - Lola Odiaga, Fortepiano

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ASIN: B000009HWA
Release Date: 1993-10-27

Franz Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Works Vol. III (Piano Sonatas, Hob. XVI/20, 44-46) - Lola Odiaga, Fortepiano

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Franz Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Works Vol. III (Piano Sonatas, Hob. XVI/20, 44-46) - Lola Odiaga, Fortepiano

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ASIN: B000001I6Z
Release Date: 1993-12-06

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