Sometimes you get a brief break during which you can listen to some music. On your headphones, in the kitchen, in bed even. And a short playlist can be very fitted for that. Years ago I made a quick Debussy fix playlist, now it are the 1985 Haydn recordings by now retired pianist Alfred Brendel, who always excelled in this repertoire. Starting with the most well known piano sonata (also a piece many people played when they had five of six years of piano lessons), the D major Hoboken 37 sonata. Then a set of moving variations in f minor, allegedly composed by Haydn as a reflection of Mozart’s death, and his masterpiece, the E flat sonata Hoboken 52.
I hope you will enjoy this Brendel-break!
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Tracks 01-03 Piano sonata in D major Hob. XVI: 37 (before 1780)
Track 04 Andante Con Variazioni In F Minor Hob. XVII: 6 (1793)
Tracks 05-07 Piano sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI: 52 (1794)
Alfred Brendel, piano
Recorded in 1985
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