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Haydn - Sonatas and Variations | Arcana A352

Haydn - Sonatas and Variations

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Label: Arcana

Cat No: A352

Barcode: 8033891690151

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th June 2009

Contents

About

The legendary Viennese pianist, Paul Badura-Skoda, issues a new recording of five piano masterworks by Joseph Haydn.

Johann Schantz's fortepiano from Badura-Skoda's collection, is the most appropriate instrument available today for interpreting Haydn's music. In a letter to Marianne von Genzinger dated 4 July 1790, Haydn refers to Johann Schantz as "the best pianoforte maker". In the late '80s and early '90s Paul Badura-Skoda recorded a small collection of four single volumes on the same instrument, with Michel Bernstein and for Astrée.

In 1945, Badura-Skoda entered the Vienna Conservatory, and two years later won a scholarship which allowed him to study with Edwin Fischer. In 1949, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan became aware of his outstanding talent and invited him to play and he became world famous
d practically overnight.

Since then, Badura-Skoda has been a regular and celebrated guest at the most important music festivals, and a soloist with the world's most prestigious orchestras, recording a vast repertoire: more than 200 LPs and dozens of compact discs, including the complete cycles of the piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. He performs with equal authority on both period and modern instruments and was a pioneer in proposing the use of period pianos in perfomance.

Recorded in October 18th-19th 2008, Kremsmünster, Schloss Kremsegg, Museum für Musikinstrumente (fortepiano Johann Schantz Vienna ca. 1790).

The accompanying booklet contains notes (in four languages) by Badura-Skoda himself.

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