Having given us a really impressive survey of Mozart’s piano sonatas, Bezuidenhout turns his attention to Haydn’s keyboard output—with even greater rewards. The first thing that strikes you here is the sound of his modern Czech copy of an 1805 Anton Walter fortepiano. With a bell-like top, a gorgeous midrange and a rich, twangy bass, it’s ideally suited to this infinitely varied fare. Bezuidenhout celebrates the music's humanity, beauty and wit in a brilliantly compiled programme of two sonatas, a partita and two sets of variations.
- Alexander Melnikov & Isabelle Faust
- Carolyn Sampson, Freiburger Barockorchester & Petra Müllejans
- Gottfried von der Goltz
- Isabelle Faust, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck & Xenia Loeffler
- Kammerorchester Basel & Giovanni Antonini
- Eva Zaïcik, Justin Taylor & Le Consort
- Midori Seiler & Concerto Köln