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Bavouzet Haydn Piano Sonatas
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Possessiveness is a Romantic trait, and so is worrying about authorship, and Haydn is paradigmatically Classical, as Bavouzet shows in these immaculate accounts…Bavouzet’s Yamaha enables him... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Unless it’s my imagination, there’s a magical and deeply touching, almost nostalgic hue to this one, as if enjoying the company of a beloved old friend before parting —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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nothing, either in expression or tone, is ever forced. It helps that [Bavouzet's] modern grand (maker unspecified) has a relatively crisp lower register, and that the recorded sound rightly... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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this is among the finest accounts [of the Variations] on disc: searchingly nuanced from moment to moment yet never losing its grip on the work's tragic progress. Bavouzet's readings of the three... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Instrumental Choice
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Under Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s supple fingers, [Sonata No. 11] proves a delight. By subtle shading of dynamics, minutely varying the rhythmic pacing and adding spritely touches of decoration to... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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This third disc in Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's ongoing exploration of Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas is the best yet. In this first two instalments, the lucidity of touch, and depth of insight were outstanding.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Even Bavouzet’s advocacy fails to disguise [the arrangements’] slight awkwardness on the piano…What he does make a great case for are the early sonatas (even those with dubious attributions),... —
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It’s hard…to find fault with these performances, which do full justice both to the glittering style of Haydn’s keyboard writing, and to the profundity of a piece such as the great Adagio from... —
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Bavouzet captures much of the essential ‘Papa Haydn’ style behind these works. Measured, lively, sparkling and beautifully phrased, his playing is unimpeachable. Alongside oodles of charm, there... —
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His playing in this second installment is quite as exemplary in touch, phrasing, characterisation and continuity, while the recorded sound is again intimate yet unconstricted...Bavouzet brings... —
