Complete Piano Pieces : Oort (5CD)

JOSEPH HAYDN:
COMPLETE KLAVIERSTUCKE (5CD)

Arietta No. 1 in E flat major with twelve variations Hob XVII/3
Variations (Fantasy) in F minor Hob XVII/6
Arietta No. 2 in A major with twenty variations Hob XVII/2
Four Variations on ‘Gott erhalte’ in G major Hob XVII: Anhang
Five Variations in D major Hob XVII/7
Six Variations in C major Hob XVII/531
Twelve Menuets Hob IX/8
Twelve Menuets Hob IX/3
Twelve Menuets Hob IX/11
Twelve German Dances Hob IX/12
March in E flat major Hob VIII/1
March in C major Hob VIII/2
March in E flat major Hob VIII/3, 3bis
Kontretanz in D major Hob XXXIc/17b
Fantasy in C major Hob XVII/4
Adagio in F major Hob XVII/9 Published in 1786 as ‘Zehn kleine Klavierstucke’ No. 7
Capriccio in G major Hob XVII/1 ‘Acht Sauschneider mussen sein’
Sonata in D major Hob XVII/D1
Sonata in F major Hob XVII/a:1 for four hands ‘Il maestro e scolare’
Eighteen Menuets and Aria Hob IX/20 and Hob XVII/F1
From Musical Clock Hob XIX/27: Allegretto in G major Hob XVII/10
From Symphony Hob I/81/II: Andante
From Symphony Hob I/79/II: Adagio
From Symphony Hob I/85/III: Menuetto
From Symphony Hob I/85/II: Rondo. Andante allegretto
From Symphony Hob I/53/II: Andante
From Symphony Hob I/93/II: Adagio in G major
From Symphony Hob I/97/III: Menuet in C major
From Symphony Hob I/94/II: (‘The Surprise’): Andante in C major
‘La Vera Constanza’ Hob XXVIII/8 Aria ‘Io son poverina’: Allegretto
‘La Vera Constanza’ Hob XXVIII/8 Second part of the Introduzione (Hob Ia/15)
‘La Vera Constanza’ Hob XXVIII/8 Last part of the Introduzione: Vivace
From String Quartet Hob III/41/IV: Allegretto - Presto
From String Quartet Hob III/74/II: Largo assai
From Piano Trio Hob XV/37/III: Menuet
From Piano Trio Hob XV/38/II: Menuet
From Piano Trio Hob XV/40/II: Menuet
From Piano Trio Hob XV/22/II: Adagio
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlosers am Kreuze Hob XX/2 (1787)

Bart van Oort, fortepiano
Sylvia Berry, fortepiano - Hob XVII/a:1

fortepiano after Walter (ca. 1795) by Chris Maene (Ruiselede, 2000)

Digital Recording: 2007

This useful set gathers up the many shorter works that Haydn wrote for the keyboard: many minuets of light character and charming temperament and variation sets of great melodic invention. He arranged many movements from his chamber and orchestral works, doubtless encouraged by his fame and his publisher to bring his music to even greater domestic popularity in a world where live music was far more often heard on the piano at home than in great concert halls. Finally, there is his great cycle of Seven Last Words: seven poignant slow movements with an introduction and final ‘Earthquake’ originally commissioned for choir and orchestra for Lisbon Cathedral, but which quickly achieved a reputation for their sober beauty out of proportion to the specific conditions of their context: hence this arrangement made by another party. Bart van Oort is a scholar-performer who has extensively researched and performed the music of Haydn and his time (including contributions made to Brilliant Classics’ complete set of the composer’s piano sonatas). Here he performs on a fine modern reproduction of a fortepiano by Walter, a maker esteemed by Haydn and Beethoven.

Recorded in 2007 Issued in time for the Haydn anniversary of 2009 Analytical notes from the performer’s perspective by Bart van Oort. ( Brilliant Classics )