Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

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McCawley’s choices of tempos are unfailingly convincing, his articulation is lucid, crisp and full of contained vitality...This is playing that makes maximal musical sense of Haydn’s notation... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0643
Label: Somm
Length: 77 minutes

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Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 48 in C major, Hob.XVI:35

Work length14:46

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Leon McCawley (piano)

I. Allegro con brio

Track length6:08

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II. Adagio

Track length5:35

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III. Finale. Allegro

Track length3:03

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Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 1 in G major, Hob.XVI:8

Work length5:04

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Leon McCawley (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length2:09

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II. Menuet

Track length1:02

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III. Andante

Track length1:08

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IV. Allegro

Track length0:45

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Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 35 in A flat major, Hob.XVI:43

Work length13:40

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Leon McCawley (piano)

I. Moderato

Track length6:07

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II. Menuetto & Trio

Track length2:22

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III. Rondo. Presto

Track length5:11

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Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 49 in C sharp minor, Hob.XVI:36

Work length13:04

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Leon McCawley (piano)

I. Moderato

Track length5:53

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II. Scherzando. Allegro con brio

Track length3:05

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III. Menuet & Trio. Moderato

Track length4:06

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Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 51 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:38

Work length12:20

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Leon McCawley (piano)

I. Allegro moderato

Track length5:31

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II. Adagio

Track length3:49

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III. Finale. Allegro

Track length3:00

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Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 30 in D major, Hob.XVI:19

Work length19:05

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Leon McCawley (piano)

I. Moderato

Track length7:15

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II. Andante

Track length8:48

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III. Finale. Allegro assai

Track length3:02

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"SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the fourth volume in Leon McCawley’s much praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonatas. Six Sonatas spanning the years 1766-80 are featured: the earliest the miniature First Sonata in G major, the latest the E flat major Sonata No.51, while Robert Matthew-Walker’s fascinating booklet note charts how deftly Haydn balanced the expectations of others and his own creative ambition. 'Intended more to entertain than engage the intellect', the fleet, divertimento-like First Sonata seems to anticipate the pedagogical leanings of Bartók’s Mikrokosmos more than a century and half later. With its unabashed galant style, the D major-led Sonata No.30 is ‘Papa’ Haydn at his most quicksilver brilliant and delightful, while Sonata No.35, in A flat major – 'a masterpiece of piano writing' – displays striking characteristics of early Romanticism. Composed with the enhanced voice of the then newly available fortepiano in mind, sibling Sonatas Nos.48 (C major) and 49 (C sharp minor) maintain a winning Classical poise even as one surprise after another see Haydn pushing the sonata form in new and unexpected directions."

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January 2022

McCawley’s choices of tempos are unfailingly convincing, his articulation is lucid, crisp and full of contained vitality...This is playing that makes maximal musical sense of Haydn’s notation unalloyed by exaggeration or mannerism.

Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

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