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    Mar 18, 2022 4 minutes
    Reviews by John Evans, Dave Jones, Peter Quantrill and Warwick Thompson

    JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET

    Haydn Piano SonatasVolume 10: Sonatas Nos 3, 4, 28, 45 and 60; Arietta con 12 Variazioni Hob. XVII: 3

    Chandos CHAN 20191

    Anyone familiar with the C major Sonata (No 60) from the likes of Brendel – or under their own fingers – should hold on to their hats. This is bracing, superbly articulate Haydn playing, often dazzlingly quick-fingered but fired with the poetic temperament to open out (the middle of the Allegro’s development) and plunge into Beethovenian depths. The other known quantity here is the : disarming to begin

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