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Andreas Haefliger: Perspectives 4 | Avie AV2173

Andreas Haefliger: Perspectives 4

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Label: Avie

Cat No: AV2173

Barcode: 0822252217322

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 7th September 2009

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About

Andreas Haefliger’s concept of replicating his recital programmes on record has been a critical and commercial success. This fourth instalment in the Perspectives series juxtaposes Beethoven with works that are inspired and influenced by that composer’s great corpus of piano sonatas.

The idiosyncratic Op.78 and the celebrated Waldstein Sonata, a boundary-breaking work when it was composed in 1804, rub shoulders with Brahms’ early and impulsive Sonata No.2. The programme provocatively opens with Janáček’s Sonata“From the Street” which, in Haefliger’s words “takes you into worlds of tragedy, metaphysical thought, a world of death, of serenity”.

This release preserves the vivid memories of Haefliger’s live performance of this repertoire in November 2008 at the Wigmore Hall, which The Sunday Times found by turns “searing and exquisite … immaculately realised” and “masterly”.

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