After a few meandering rides in the c-mollsonatens the first batch, the process is cancelled by a bold dissonance that remains suspended in the air. As if the composer interrupts with a surprised ”Where have I landed now?”
for the first time takes on Haydn, after having accomplished a minor miracle with Bach, Mozart and Schubert, he has been inspired by two things. Both because of the striking similarity between this 1700’s and the contemporary English theme park bewildering surprises – full of the early romantic’s delight in the mysterious voids and fragmenterande interruption. And how Haydn pianist was a narrative rhetorician, a brilliant ”talker” on his instrument. And an incomparable intermediary of imaginary landscapes. Perspective that brought Bezuidenhout, at his fine pianoforte, right into the arms of Haydn.
Best track: Variations in f-minor
Read more music reviews by Martin Nyström, for example, if the new recordings of the Sibelius symphonies.
