Re: Haydn Piano Sonata

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@abs.net>]

From: jerry and judy <jerbidoc@zianet.com>
>
>  I'm offering this from behind a bevy of upsided chairs, but I must
point
> out that the Gould The Last Six Sonatas of Haydn M2K 36947 really
has no
> equal, if as a pianist you want to hear what can be mined from late
Haydn
> sonatas.  The performance of the last sonata alone is worth the
price of
> the set.  Disc 2 by itself, with the Hoboken XVI 50 51 and 52, is
worth
> twice the total investment.  You will play it over and over, hearing
new
> things, new accents and very long lines etc.

When I first heard the excerpt of the GG version of Haydn's Hob Xvi:48
on the Images CD, I enjoyed it, but I wasn't sure how much. I had
heard another version of that one (by Ax) on a Sony collection, and
for some reason, I felt as though I "should" like the Ax version
better.

Eventually, I broke down and bought the GG Haydn Sonata CD anyway. (It
helped that it was on sale and that I'd heard so many great things
about it on F-Minor and that it was on sale!) I grew to love that CD.
And when I listened to the Ax version of the piece, I could no longer
tell why I had liked that one.

I made a cassette tape copy of the GG Haydn set to play in my car. It
"magically" ended up in my mother's car, and she's *not* going to give
it back to me. :->