In Reply to: Other artists recommendations? posted by jimbill on April 16, 2010 at 07:57:15:
jimbill,I may have eccentric taste, but overall I enjoy the Haydn Piano Sonatas more than Mozart's.
For performances, I was always very impressed with the Haydn of Rudolph Buchbinder my version on some mid-60's Telefunken LP's. Buchbinder has a wonderful control of Haydn's dynamic pace- breaking into eccentric Scarlatti-like rhythms, and then very detailed, ornamented CPE Bach, some polite Mozart, then Beethoven Sturm und Drang, back to JS Bach fuguery and so on. Not that Haydn is a pastiche of other composers' style in any way- he's just endlessly inventive in a way that requires a player with a sense of architecture to make it all work together. And Buchbinder is one of those excellent architectural players- Brendel and Richter too- that make the Haydn Sonatas into a great arch made out of all those small vignette-like phrases.
Checking Amazon, the complete Haydn Sonatas with Buchbinder is about $60 (see link below). While I have this on LP, I may break my rule of not buying CD's of what I have on LP and buy this set. Like Haydn's String Quartets, I can listen to the Sonatas a lot- wonderful complexity.
Cheers,Bambi B
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Follow Ups
- Rudolph Buchbinder - Bambi B 04/16/1010:44:03 04/16/10 (2)
- Already ordered the Richter. - jimbill 19:59:24 04/16/10 (1)
- RE: Already ordered the Richter. - Tom B. 16:42:02 04/18/10 (0)