{"product_id":"cc72742-six-piano-sonatas","title":"Six Piano Sonatas","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe six keyboard sonatas selected for this CD are taken from Haydn’s middle period, all written between 1773-1776 when he was loyally at the service of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy (and to whom three of the sonatas are dedicated). I find it fascinating that even within the context of Haydn’s 60 continuous years of composition, and given the vast development and change in his style – moving from the early Classical period and Style Galant, through the Empfindsamkeit and C.P.E. Bach’s influence, to establishing and refining what is now the essence of “The Classical Style”- Haydn displays in a short period of 3 years an astonishing diversity of compositional techniques, modes of expression, style and characters. The elegant finesse, proportion and (deceiving) symmetry presented in the first movement of the D major Sonata (Hob. XVI:24), is followed with the contrapuntal lines of the first movement of the A major Sonata (Hob. XVI:26), its ingenious Menuet Al Rovescio (Minuet in reverse) and its surprising, playful and brisk third movement. Later on unfolds a serene and beautiful slow movement, reminiscent of a Passacaglia with interwoven long polyphonic lines, in which Haydn overtly leans back to the Baroque era (Hob. XVI:31, 2nd movt.). The set of sonatas chosen here culminates with the B minor sonata (Hob. XVI:32), which foreshadows some Beethovenian elements - in drama, architecture and motivic use.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Challenge Classics","offers":[{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739072409924,"sku":"CC72742-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739072442692,"sku":"CC72742-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739072475460,"sku":"CC72742-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56739072508228,"sku":"CC72742-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56739072540996,"sku":"CC72742-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":57308915892548,"sku":"CC72742-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335917936964,"sku":"CC72742S1417","price":28.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/CC72742-2.jpg?v=1790482252","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/cc72742-six-piano-sonatas","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}