Chandos
Haydn: Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 11 / Bavouzet
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Details
- Composer
- HAYDN, JOSEPH
- Artist
- Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Takacs-Nagy
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Sep 30, 2014
- Catalog #
- CHAN 10808
- UPC
- 095115180822
About
A couple of years ago this release would have made an easy reference recording. Bavouzet’s Haydn thus far has been excellent, and his playing on this disc is extremely fine: tasteful in its sustained lyricism in the adagios, and brilliant in the outer movements. Indeed the finales are, if anything, perhaps too quick to permit the fullest characterization of the music, but there’s no questioning their dazzling virtuosity.
Unfortunately for Bavouzet, this repertoire is now very well covered both on period instruments (for BIS and Harmonia Mundi) and above all by Marc-André Hamelin and Les Violons du Roy on Hyperion, which gives you the best of both worlds. Make no mistake, the Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy plays very well, and they are of one mind with Bavouzet. It’s just that the competition is better, however marginally. In the slow movement of the Concerto in F Major, the use of solo strings to open and close the movement strikes me as unnecessarily mannered, and Bavouzet’s cadenza, intended as a tribute to Friedrich Gulda in jazz mode, comes across almost as a weird paraphrase of the theme song from “The Young and the Restless”.
This is the only questionable moment in what is otherwise a wholly enjoyable release, and if you’ve been collecting Bavouzet’s Haydn (and you should be) then I can recommend this latest installment warmly. But as I said, there are several alternatives, Hamelin above all, that you might prefer if you have limited shelf space.
-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
Tracklist 9 tracks
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1 I. Allegretto 09:44
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegretto
- Duration
- 09:44
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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2 II. Largo 07:38
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Largo
- Duration
- 07:38
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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3 III. Finale: Presto 03:46
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Finale: Presto
- Duration
- 03:46
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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4 I. Allegro 09:10
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Allegro
- Duration
- 09:10
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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5 II. Adagio 06:46
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Adagio
- Duration
- 06:46
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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6 III. Finale: Rondo 03:51
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Finale: Rondo
- Duration
- 03:51
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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7 I. Vivace 08:07
- Track
- 7
- Title
- I. Vivace
- Duration
- 08:07
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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8 II. Un poco adagio 06:43
- Track
- 8
- Title
- II. Un poco adagio
- Duration
- 06:43
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy
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9 III. Rondo all'ungarese: Allegro assai 04:14
- Track
- 9
- Title
- III. Rondo all'ungarese: Allegro assai
- Duration
- 04:14
- Composer
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Performer
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
- Ensemble
- Manchester Camerata
- Conductor
- Gábor Takács-Nagy