It's very hard from the cover to figure out what you're getting in this collection of pieces from the young Haydn, an original recording for the budget-minded Dutch label Brilliant. Just as Grape-Nuts contain neither grapes nor nuts, the promised concertini and divertimenti for piano trio (that's what the back cover says -- the front says "keyboard trio") are not for trio and do not involve a piano. Instead, as the listing of performers makes clear, the keyboard instrument heard here is a harpsichord, joined with two ...
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It's very hard from the cover to figure out what you're getting in this collection of pieces from the young Haydn, an original recording for the budget-minded Dutch label Brilliant. Just as Grape-Nuts contain neither grapes nor nuts, the promised concertini and divertimenti for piano trio (that's what the back cover says -- the front says "keyboard trio") are not for trio and do not involve a piano. Instead, as the listing of performers makes clear, the keyboard instrument heard here is a harpsichord, joined with two violins and a cello. The harpsichord is entirely appropriate for music written in the 1750s or 1760s. The music is pretty simple stuff, consisting of technically easy and structurally straightforward groups of three movements, generally beginning with one in moderate tempo. Orchestral performance, to judge from rarity of passages in which the violins play in unison, was apparently not envisioned. Haydn probably wrote these works for amateur nobles at Esterháza, and he knew his clientele...
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