Won-Sook Hur – Haydn: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:26 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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In popular mythology Haydn’s name is far less closely associated with the piano sonata than with the string quartet or symphony. Though a more than competent pianist (one writer in London described his playing of the brilliant fortepiano solo in the Symphony No 98 as ‘neat and distinct’), he was by his own admission no ‘wizard’ on the keyboard, and unlike Mozart and Beethoven never wrote sonatas for his own performance. Yet the keyboard remained central to Haydn’s creative process. His morning routine would invariably begin with him trying out ideas, for whatever medium, on the clavichord, the harpsichord or, from the 1780s, the fortepiano; and he composed prolifically for keyboard through most of his adult life, beginning with the harpsichord works he produced for aristocratic pupils during his ‘galley years’ in Vienna and culminating in the three great sonatas (Nos 50–52 in Hoboken’s catalogue) inspired by the sonorous Broadwood instruments he encountered on his London visits.
Tracklist:
1-1. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46: I. Allegro moderato (09:15)
1-2. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46: II. Adagio (06:51)
1-3. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46: III. Finale. Presto (03:01)
1-4. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 47 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis: I. Adagio (04:01)
1-5. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 47 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis: II. Allegro (03:14)
1-6. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 47 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:47bis: III. Finale. Tempo di menuet (03:58)
1-7. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 36 in C Major, Hob. XVI:21: I. Allegro (08:19)
1-8. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 36 in C Major, Hob. XVI:21: II. Adagio (07:56)
1-9. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 36 in C Major, Hob. XVI:21: III. Finale. Presto (03:10)
1-10. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 37 in E Major, Hob. XVI:22: I. Allegro moderato (07:14)
1-11. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 37 in E Major, Hob. XVI:22: II. Andante (05:39)
1-12. Won-Sook Hur – Keyboard Sonata No. 37 in E Major, Hob. XVI:22: III. Finale. Tempo di menuet (03:43)
