Donald Macleod introduces a week focusing of Haydn's often overlooked - yet utterly beguiling - piano sonatas, which span virtually his entire composing life.
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Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from the light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be taken by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art
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A very promising sounding CoW.
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Haydn wrote more than sixty keyboard sonatas, spanning a remarkable half-century in music history. This period saw harpsichords and clavichords replaced by the forerunners of the modern piano, and - more than that - keyboard music go from the light dance suites to the sonata: a form that would shortly be taken by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert into the very highest pinnacle of musical art
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A very promising sounding CoW.
- and in the McCabe box, you also get the keyboard Seven Last Words, missing from the CAPRICCIO box. I've only heard extracts from the set - they were initially released in boxed sets of three LPs and my school had one of the volumes (I think that one of the sonatas - not otherwise available as a recording - was an "O"-level set work one year). So, we're talking about forty years and more ago - and I can't recall very much, except that I enjoyed the sound of them at the time. (In fact, it was probably then that I decided that I must get to hear more of them someday 
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