Perspectives 4

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…perhaps the most striking playing of all comes in the Brahms where Haefliger delivers an interpretation of formidable granitic strength that nonetheless manages to encapsulate the work's more... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Sep 2009
Catalogue No: AV2173
Label: Avie
Series: Perspectives
Length: 78 minutes

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Janáček: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII / 19 'From the Street'

Work length5:46

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Andreas Haefliger

Janáček: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII / 19 'From the Street'

Work length8:42

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Andreas Haefliger

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'

Work length25:17

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Andreas Haefliger

I. Allegro con brio

Track length11:27

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II. Introduzione: Adagio molto - attacca

Track length4:04

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III. Rondo: Allegretto moderato

Track length9:46

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78

Work length10:29

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Andreas Haefliger

I. Adagio cantabile ? Allegro ma non troppo

Track length7:34

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II. Allegro vivace

Track length2:55

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Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2

Work length28:10

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Andreas Haefliger

I. Allegro non troppo, ma energico

Track length6:17

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II. Andante con espressione

Track length5:27

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III. Scherzo: Allegro -- Poco più moderato

Track length4:09

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IV. Intoduzione Sostenuto - Allegro non troppo e rubato - Molto sostenuto

Track length12:17

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Andreas Haefliger’s concept of replicating his recital programmes on record has been a critical and commercial success. The fourth instalment in the Perspectives series juxtaposes Beethoven with works that are inspired and influenced by that composer’s great corpus of piano sonatas.

The idiosyncratic Op. 78 and the celebrated Waldstein Sonata, a boundary - breaking work when it was composed in 1804, rub shoulders with Brahms’ early and impulsive Sonata No. 2. The programme provocatively opens with Janácek’s Sonata, “From the Street”, which, in Haefliger’s words “takes you into worlds of tragedy, metaphysical thought, a world of death, of serenity”. This release preserves the vivid memories of Haefliger’s live performance of this repertoire in November 2008 at the Wigmore Hall, which The Sunday Times found by turns “searing and exquisite … immaculately realised” and “masterly”.

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Christmas 2009

…perhaps the most striking playing of all comes in the Brahms where Haefliger delivers an interpretation of formidable granitic strength that nonetheless manages to encapsulate the work's more introspective and poetic aspects.

July 2010

The outer movements' ungrateful octaves and fistfuls of chords flow like oil, while Heafliger's nuanced, cultivated touch brings a three-dimensional quality to the slow movement's sad lyricism, to say nothing of his focused, rhythmic control in the Scherzo...[an] assured and committed performance.

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