Browse: Haydn - Piano Sonata No. 44 in F major, Hob.XVI:29

the playing is outstanding for its crystalline tone, springy rhythms, lively tempos and integral handling of ornamentation...Hamelin is often at his most brilliant where Haydn is at his most... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Donohoe takes each work at face value, delivering straightdown-the-middle interpretations with the utmost directness, high-definition clarity and scrupulous rhythmic accuracy. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2023 More…

I love the way Hantaï plays the many grace-notes throughout these works, especially the Haydn sonatas—crisply, naturally, and with no fussiness. This is the least of his many outstanding qualities. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 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…