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Rudolph Buchbinder




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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