Haydn - Airs, Variations and Dances
Catalog Number: BIS1323-24
Haydn’s wit and depth glow on a silvery fortepiano: from improvisatory caprice to the F-minor double variations’ dark radiance, with dances, teaching pieces, and the “Emperor” hymn reframed in poised, breathing lyricism.
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Haydn - Airs, Variations and Dances
This three-disc portrait gathers Haydn’s art of variation and dance—the arena where his humour, invention, and inwardness meet—heard on a period-styled fortepiano that lets lines speak with spring and shade. The journey moves from the capricious G-major fantasia on a popular song, its improvisatory sweep recalling C. P. E. Bach, to the fleet C-major Fantasia conceived for fortepiano—a play of clarity and quicksilver touch. At the centre stands the Andante con variazioni in F minor, a set of double variations whose tragic coda feels almost Romantic in its gravity, here shaped with pliant tempo and long-breathed phrasing. Haydn’s gift for recasting material shines as quartet pages become eloquent keyboard cantilena—the “Emperor” hymn variations unfolding as serene cantus-firmus arabesques—while Il Maestro e lo Scolare winks at the teaching studio with graceful wit. The closing disc turns to salon and ballroom: minuets and German dances that balance courtly poise with earthy swing, alongside English-period marches, all articulated with rhythmic lift and crystalline voicing. Ronald Brautigam’s fortepiano—after an Anton Walter instrument—adds a warm, vocal presence, the recorded sound from Länna Church offering air, focus, and truthful resonance.
Published date
2003-12-10
Number of discs
3
Channels
stereo:16:2.0
Made in Sweden since 1999. In collaboration with Textalk.
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