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Title: Piano Sonatas 3
Artist: Leon McCawley
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 748871062429
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-11-20
Number of Discs: 1
SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the third volume in Leon McCawley's much praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonatas. Six Sonatas, spanning the years 1767-84, are featured: the earliest No.31 in A-flat major, the latest No.56 in D major while Robert Matthew- Walker provides fascinating booklet notes describing the multifarious effects on his music of Haydn's enthusiasm for equal temperament. Sonata No.31 in A-flat major is, he says, a continuation of Bach that seems to bypass Mozart and anticipate early Beethoven: Astonishingly original music, and not just for it's time. The two-movement Sonata No.32 in G minor is a unique and intimate work while No.34 in D major boasts an innovative tonal scheme that disguises it's virtuosity with immediately approachable technique. The F major Sonata No.38, notes Matthew-Walker, is full of that wonderful combination of inner life and directly human expression that is the essence of Haydn. Two later Sonatas - Nos.55 (B-flat major) and 56 (D major) - arguably saw romantic sonata form tested to it's expressive limits by Haydn's original genius and his thematic developmental-variation technique even today causing surprise for it's profoundly original subtleties. Volume I was recognized with a coveted Diapason d'Or from Diapason magazine, which enthused: What a range in his interpretation and how many layers of gradation! McCawley ties these together in a special quality of inflexions which make their point with great intelligibility and sensitivity. BBC Music Magazine declared Volume II should stand high on any list of quality recordings of Haydn, adding the sparkle of McCawley's touch is instantly apparent. Gramophone also commended McCawley's playing, describing it as light of touch, stylistically assured and brimful of intelligence and wit.
Tracks:
1.1 Sonata No.34 in D Major, Hob. XVI:33
1.2 Sonata No.32 in G minor, Hob. XVI:44
1.3 Sonata No.31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46
1.4 Sonata No.38 in F Major, Hob. XVI:23
1.5 Sonata No.55 in B-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:41
1.6 Sonata No.56 in D Major, Hob. XVI:42
Artist: Leon McCawley
Label: Somm Recordings
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 748871062429
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-11-20
Number of Discs: 1
SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the third volume in Leon McCawley's much praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonatas. Six Sonatas, spanning the years 1767-84, are featured: the earliest No.31 in A-flat major, the latest No.56 in D major while Robert Matthew- Walker provides fascinating booklet notes describing the multifarious effects on his music of Haydn's enthusiasm for equal temperament. Sonata No.31 in A-flat major is, he says, a continuation of Bach that seems to bypass Mozart and anticipate early Beethoven: Astonishingly original music, and not just for it's time. The two-movement Sonata No.32 in G minor is a unique and intimate work while No.34 in D major boasts an innovative tonal scheme that disguises it's virtuosity with immediately approachable technique. The F major Sonata No.38, notes Matthew-Walker, is full of that wonderful combination of inner life and directly human expression that is the essence of Haydn. Two later Sonatas - Nos.55 (B-flat major) and 56 (D major) - arguably saw romantic sonata form tested to it's expressive limits by Haydn's original genius and his thematic developmental-variation technique even today causing surprise for it's profoundly original subtleties. Volume I was recognized with a coveted Diapason d'Or from Diapason magazine, which enthused: What a range in his interpretation and how many layers of gradation! McCawley ties these together in a special quality of inflexions which make their point with great intelligibility and sensitivity. BBC Music Magazine declared Volume II should stand high on any list of quality recordings of Haydn, adding the sparkle of McCawley's touch is instantly apparent. Gramophone also commended McCawley's playing, describing it as light of touch, stylistically assured and brimful of intelligence and wit.
Tracks:
1.1 Sonata No.34 in D Major, Hob. XVI:33
1.2 Sonata No.32 in G minor, Hob. XVI:44
1.3 Sonata No.31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46
1.4 Sonata No.38 in F Major, Hob. XVI:23
1.5 Sonata No.55 in B-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:41
1.6 Sonata No.56 in D Major, Hob. XVI:42
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