These "Haydn sonatas for harpsichord" from the first part of the composer's career are certainly for the harpsichord -- they date from the 1750s and 1760s, when the piano was still a novelty. Whether they're sonatas is more problematical; they might easily have gone by the names of partita or divertimento, and they involve quite a variety of formal types. And whether they're all by Haydn is debatable; a few movements are particularly suspect. The good news is that in the hands of harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, it doesn't ...
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These "Haydn sonatas for harpsichord" from the first part of the composer's career are certainly for the harpsichord -- they date from the 1750s and 1760s, when the piano was still a novelty. Whether they're sonatas is more problematical; they might easily have gone by the names of partita or divertimento, and they involve quite a variety of formal types. And whether they're all by Haydn is debatable; a few movements are particularly suspect. The good news is that in the hands of harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, it doesn't really matter. He has an uncanny way of finding Haydn's characteristic humor in these early works. Four of the five sonatas contain at least one minuet, and even as a young composer Haydn infused this stodgy old French dance with wit born of very subtle contrasts and turns of phrase. Schenkman, helped by a stylistically appropriate harpsichord from 1736, catches every little joke. Many of the other movements are short (they are mostly in three movements, although the usual...
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