HAYDN EDITION
The Late Piano Sonatas, vol.2
nos. 58, 59, 60 & 62
(to Therese Jansen Bartolozzi)
Alain Planès, piano

Five years after a critically acclaimed trilogy of recitals devoted to the piano sonatas, now reissued in a three-CD set, Alain Planès was keen to round off his portrait of Haydn with the composer reigning supreme over the genre in the final decade of the eighteenth century – his very last sonatas foreshadow the art of Beethoven and even Schubert...

HAYDN EDITION
String Quartets, vol.2
op.20 no 5, op.33 no 3, op.76 no 5
Jerusalem Quartet

It has been a long time since I have been so taken with any readings of Haydn Quartets. All three of these appear on the Emerson’s recent “The Haydn Project” DG set, and the Jerusalem wins two out of three. This disc strikes me as the ideal gift... I certainly cannot resist its charm; at first hearing, it brightened a gray day, and its smile has not faded.’ Fanfare

HAYDN EDITION
Piano Sonatas, vol.1
nos. 11, 13, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39,
43, 47, 50, 53, 55 & 61
Alain Planès, piano

Alain Planès offers here a broad selection of Haydn’s output. From the experimental, sometimes anguished pieces of the Sturm und Drang period, through the refined and witty galanterie of the 1780s, to the visionary masterpieces of late sonatas, he brings out to the full Haydn’s indefatigable spirit of adventure and infinite resources.

HAYDN EDITION
Symphonies nos. 91 & 92 'Oxford'
Scena di Berenice
Bernarda Fink
Freiburger Barockorchester
René Jacobs

These symphonies are a superb testimony to the achievement of the composer’s high maturity, which was shortly to earn him an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. As for the dramatic scena Berenice, che fai? it’s London premiere in 1795 was one of Haydn’s most memorable successes.

HAYDN EDITION
Cello Concertos
Jean-Guihen Queyras, violoncello
Freiburger Barockorchester
Petra Müllejans

The two Haydn concertos recorded here are pillars of the cello repertoire, and unquestionably the two most accomplished works in their genre from the Viennese Classical era. As to the concerto by Matthias Georg Monn, it is a remarkable work from the pre-Haydn period.