Browse: Haydn - Piano Sonata No. 39 in D major, Hob.XVI:24

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 achieves... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Hamelin kicks off with the late C major Sonata, H50, nailing his virtuoso credentials firmly to the mast with a mercurial account of its opening movement. Some may prefer Schiff's more measured... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Yarden] responds to each with great characterfulness…every sonata seems to spring a surprise, not just musically but compositionally…Yarden clearly has much to say in this repertoire, and she’s... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

…in the earliest sonatas Brautigam plays… with ready wit, and he used to the full the dynamic and tonal range, so that the simplest pieces have colourful charm and never sound under-nourished.... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009 More…

On the face of it, these are rather 'straight' readings, meticulously fingered and judiciously paced; Kozhukin never rushes detail or stabs at the keyboard for emphasis...Yet his apparent restraint... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jando is confirming his reputation as a fluent Haydn interpreter, wholly in sympathy with the composer's musical language. — Gramophone Magazine More…