Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. More Bavouzet – and more delights, as the French pianist continues his admirable survey of the 50-plus Haydn piano ...

Haydn composed 60 sonatas for the piano between the 1750s and 1795. Though six are lost, it represents a significant body of work and, having fallen rather out of fashion in recent years, is now being ...

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Hearing world-renowned classical musicians perform live is a rare experience for most college students. But Wednesday evening, acclaimed Russian-born pianist Boris Berman will fill the intimate Morse ...

Ekaterina Derzhavina's name was new to me, but this 9-CD set of Haydn's complete piano sonatas should broaden her recognition considerably. Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all imaginative, ...

Roman Rabinovich – born in Uzbekistan and raised in Israel, and an alumnus of both Juilliard and Curtis – has started a Haydn piano sonata cycle for First Hand Records. The first volume has been ...

Anton Kuerti: Haydn, Six Piano Sonatas Canada’s great Beethoven interpreter turns to Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809), whose piano sonatas aren’t appreciated enough. Haydn’s music is focused more on ...

Haydn’s piano sonatas are not the work of a keyboard virtuoso. And the “big statement”-style of performing them is one of their major enemies. Marc-André Hamelin may be a virtuoso, but he has divined ...

If you like to hear Haydn sonatas crisply delivered, i's dotted, t's crossed, with good fingerwork, and in a clean recording, then the Chandos cycle by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet should have ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Haydn piano sonatas, a Shostakovich explosion and the fantastical opera “Sweet Land” are among the highlights. Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi) Not all ...

In the booklet-note Malcolm Bilson speaks of returning to ‘Haydn’s sound world’ but the sound world for No 60 (1794/95) is not the world of the Schanz fortepiano used here. The first edition of this ...

SANTA BARBARA — When the American composer Elliott Carter reached the seemingly ripe old age of 80, I interviewed him about his late style. He wasn’t much interested in either looking back or keeping ...