Haydn's Haus

[Wakefield]

Yes, I also consider Derzhavina as the best current option to get a complete recording of the piano sonatas on modern piano.

The best incomplete, but substantial, recording of the keyboard sonatas on modern piano is still Alfred Brendel:

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[George]

McCabe is very reliable, but I am told that this is the way to go these days:

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I don't know if it a decision which lends itself to listening to samples... 

Spotify samples show a nice, clean energy that is lacking in the Buchbinder set.

You're welcome, George.  Sarge says even I would like it, so it must be pretty OK.

If Sarge likes it (and Jens likes it, and Gordo likes it), then that is all I need to know.

Thanks all, ordered!

[Gurn Blanston]

This week I laid on the research and turned out the next decade of music chronology. Haydn wrote hundreds of works (well a few hundred at least!) in the 1760's, and I have them arranged according to the latest research. Check it out if this stuff interests you!

The 1760's: Wow all that!?!

Thanks,

[Karl Henning]

This week I laid on the research and turned out the next decade of music chronology. Haydn wrote hundreds of works (well a few hundred at least!) in the 1760's, and I have them arranged according to the latest research. Check it out if this stuff interests you!

The 1760's: Wow all that!?!

Thanks,

Busy you have been, O Gurn!

[Gurn Blanston]

Sometimes, when you get an idea, you don't know what you are getting into until it's time to start research. So it was this week. "Let's see, 1788, time to bring Mozart in before he dies on me...". Still, I made some progress, I hope you will find it interesting.

Those rascally Turks, for real this time!

Thanks,

[kishnevi]

Sidebar.
This new style from Clark's of England landed in our stockroom this week.
Link will reveal why it is appropriate here.
http://m.jcpenney.com/jcp/product.jsp?ppId=pp5005460081

Full disclosure...I work for JCPenney, so I do have a financial interest involved....small overall but important to me.

[Que]

Sometimes, when you get an idea, you don't know what you are getting into until it's time to start research. So it was this week. "Let's see, 1788, time to bring Mozart in before he dies on me...". Still, I made some progress, I hope you will find it interesting.

Those rascally Turks, for real this time!

Thanks,

So, Haydn owned a Schantz fortepiano - good on him! Excellent choice.....

I am impressed by your project and the progress you are making, Gurn.

Q

[Karl Henning]

Sometimes, when you get an idea, you don't know what you are getting into until it's time to start research. So it was this week. "Let's see, 1788, time to bring Mozart in before he dies on me...". Still, I made some progress, I hope you will find it interesting.

Those rascally Turks, for real this time!

Thanks,

Most enjoyable.

[Gurn Blanston]

Sidebar.
This new style from Clark's of England landed in our stockroom this week.
Link will reveal why it is appropriate here.
http://m.jcpenney.com/jcp/product.jsp?ppId=pp5005460081

Full disclosure...I work for JCPenney, so I do have a financial interest involved....small overall but important to me.

Quite attractive on a well-turned ankle. I'm guessing from the model name that the pearls are actually hidin'...   

[Bogey]

Oh, and I believe we missed it my friend (by a month) but nice job of having your blog up for 2 years running.

[Karl Henning]

Quite attractive on a well-turned ankle. I'm guessing from the model name that the pearls are actually hidin'...   

Antimicrobial moisture management is a Hadyn trademark, indeed.

[Gurn Blanston]

So, Haydn owned a Schantz fortepiano - good on him! Excellent choice.....

I am impressed by your project and the progress you are making, Gurn.

Q

Thanks, Q.



Haydn's was by Wenzel Schantz, as opposed to the more well-known Johann. I believe they were cousins, but may be wrong. There are several Johann Schantz fortepianos still in existence, Badura-Skoda has one and plays it on several recordings, and Bilson plays one here. This being because there is no known example of a Wenzel Schantz still in existence.   It is now believed that Haydn's was  not a grand piano style, but a Viennese Square Piano that would have looked like this one:



Thanks for your kind words, sorry to be stuck in my "lecture mode" this AM...

[Gurn Blanston]

Most enjoyable.

Oh, and I believe we missed it my friend (by a month) but nice job of having your blog up for 2 years running.

Thank you both, much appreciated. As hard work as it is (and no lie, it IS at times!) seeing a result and having so many people come read it makes it worth the effort.   

[Bogey]

Thank you both, much appreciated. As hard work as it is (and no lie, it IS at times!) seeing a result and having so many people come read it makes it worth the effort.   

I am in and out with my Haydn listening.  Always have been I guess.  He's one of those composers where I "binge listen" when it hits me.  I would never relegate this comparison to the next available HBO stream on Amazon, but your blog adds a ton especially the building of his time and what his world was like.   Keep cranking, Gurn!

[Gurn Blanston]

I am in and out with my Haydn listening.  Always have been I guess.  He's one of those composers where I "binge listen" when it hits me.  I would never relegate this comparison to the next available HBO stream on Amazon, but your blog adds a ton especially the building of his time and what his world was like.   Keep cranking, Gurn!

Thanks, Bill. That is just my intent; to be a super-deluxe liner note.      Actually, I try to answer my own questions, and hope they also answer someone else's. Not a lot more one can do, at least from MY seat (back of the class).

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Bill. That is just my intent; to be a super-deluxe liner note.   

Dude, you are on course to be ranked among The Best of the Web.

[Gurn Blanston]

Dude, you are on course to be ranked among The Best of the Web.

  Naw,

Thanks, though! 

[Wakefield]

Thanks, Q.



Haydn's was by Wenzel Schantz, as opposed to the more well-known Johann. I believe they were cousins, but may be wrong. There are several Johann Schantz fortepianos still in existence, Badura-Skoda has one and plays it on several recordings, and Bilson plays one here. This being because there is no known example of a Wenzel Schantz still in existence.   It is now believed that Haydn's was  not a grand piano style, but a Viennese Square Piano that would have looked like this one:



Thanks for your kind words, sorry to be stuck in my "lecture mode" this AM...

You have inspired me to listen to Mrs. Joanna Leach this morning. Aren't Viennese square pianos, but...

[Gurn Blanston]

You have inspired me to listen to Mrs. Joanna Leach this morning. Aren't Viennese square pianos, but...

Yes. I really like those English Square Pianos she plays too. True, different sound, yet not inappropriate, given the course of travel of much of Haydn's music! 

[Wakefield]

Yes. I really like those English Square Pianos she plays too. True, different sound, yet not inappropriate, given the course of travel of much of Haydn's music! 

Lovely sound, indeed.

Last Thursday, I attended a recital by Nelson Freire here in Santiago, and I vividly recalled how much, sometimes, I hate the monotony/monochromy of the Steinway grand, when he played Bach and... Beethoven! After that arrived Rachmaninov and Shostakovich and the piano wasn't a problem anymore.