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This useful set gathers up the many shorter works that Haydn wrote for the keyboard: many minuets of light character and charming temperament and variation sets of great melodic invention. He arranged many movements from his chamber and orchestral works, doubtless encouraged by his fame and his publisher to bring his music to even greater domestic popularity in a world where live music was far more often heard on the piano at home than in great concert halls. Finally, there is his great cycle of Seven Last Words: seven poignant slow movements with an introduction and final ‘Earthquake’ originally commissioned for choir and orchestra for Lisbon Cathedral, but which quickly achieved a reputation for their sober beauty out of proportion to the specific conditions of their context: hence this arrangement made by another party. Bart van Oort is a scholar-performer who has extensively researched and performed the music of Haydn and his time (including contributions made to Brilliant Classics’ complete set of the composer’s piano sonatas). Here he performs on a fine modern reproduction of a fortepiano by Walter, a maker esteemed by Haydn and Beethoven.
Recorded in 2007 Issued in time for the Haydn anniversary of 2009 Analytical notes from the performer’s perspective by Bart van Oort
Track listing:
CD 1
VARIATIONS
1. Arietta No. 1 in E flat major with twelve variations Hob XVII/3 14:10
2. Variations (Fantasy) in F minor Hob XVII/6 14:55
3. Arietta No. 2 in A major with twenty variations Hob XVII/2 15:37
4. Four Variations on ‘Gott erhalte’ in G major Hob XVII: Anhang 5:50
5. Five Variations in D major Hob XVII/7 4:27
6. Six Variations in C major Hob XVII/5 7:31
CD 2
DANCES
Twelve Menuets Hob IX/8
March in E flat major Hob VIII/1
Twelve Menuets Hob IX/3
Twelve Menuets Hob IX/11
Twelve German Dances Hob IX/12
CD 3
MISCELLANEOUS KEYBOARD WORKS
Fantasy in C major Hob XVII/4
Adagio in F major Hob XVII/9 Published in 1786 as ‘Zehn kleine Klavierstücke’ No. 7 Capriccio in G major Hob XVII/1 ‘Acht Sauschneider müssen sein’
Sonata in D major Hob XVII/D1
Sonata in F major Hob XVII/a:1 for four hands ‘Il maestro e scolare’
Eighteen Menuets and Aria Hob IX/20 and Hob XVII/F1
CD 4
ARRANGEMENTS
From Musical Clock Hob XIX/27: Allegretto in G major Hob XVII/10 1:37
From Symphony Hob I/81/II: Andante 6:17
From Symphony Hob I/79/II: Adagio 4:45
From Symphony Hob I/85/III: Menuetto 3:06
From Symphony Hob I/85/II: Rondo. Andante allegretto 3:25
From Symphony Hob I/53/II: Andante 2:35
From Symphony Hob I/93/II: Adagio in G major 4:31
From Symphony Hob I/97/III: Menuet in C major 3:12
From Symphony Hob I/94/II: (‘The Surprise’): Andante in C major 5:15
‘La Vera Constanza’ Hob XXVIII/8
Aria ‘Io son poverina’: Allegretto 1:11
Second part of the Introduzione (Hob Ia/15) 1:32
Last part of the Introduzione: Vivace 1:04
Arrangements from String Quartets
Arrangements from Piano Trios
CD 5
THE SEVEN LAST WORDS
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze Hob XX/2 (1787)
1. L’Introduzione
2. Sonata I Pater, dimitte illis, quia nesciunt, quid faciunt
3. Sonata II Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso
4. Sonata III Mulier, ecce filius tuus
5. Sonata IV Deus meus, ut quid derelquisti me?
6. Sonata V Sittio
7. Sonata VI Consummatum est
8. Sonata VII In manus tuas, Domine, commendo Spiritum meum
9. Il Terremoto
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