Byron Schenkman has played the harpsichord and fortepiano, but he experiments with a modern piano on this recording of Haydn keyboard works, most of them ambitious and in places quite startling. He is among a group of keyboard players who have been trying to apply the insights and techniques of fortepiano performance to modern piano readings, trading percussive impact for subtle balance, flash for agility, modern power for an appreciation of a composer's own sound world. In general he combines the virtues of piano and ...
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Byron Schenkman has played the harpsichord and fortepiano, but he experiments with a modern piano on this recording of Haydn keyboard works, most of them ambitious and in places quite startling. He is among a group of keyboard players who have been trying to apply the insights and techniques of fortepiano performance to modern piano readings, trading percussive impact for subtle balance, flash for agility, modern power for an appreciation of a composer's own sound world. In general he combines the virtues of piano and fortepiano effectively here, offering light, exact readings that use the modern piano to emphasize an interpretive point.Schenkman has a sympathetic feel for Haydn, not shortchanging or skating over the composer's astonishing sense of humor. The enormous pauses that occur as Haydn works his way back to the tonic key in the first movement of the Sonata in C major, H. 16/35, elicit the proper "Well, I'll be damned" reaction in Schenkman's performance. He is on less solid ground in the...
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