A graduate recital in piano

Includes recorded audio files in WAV and MP3 format, 88:79 in length.Franz Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) sonatas have been overshadowed by those of Mozart and Beethoven. It may be that many of them are not material for the concert platform. But to the pianist and to the competent sight-reader, Haydn offers a musical experience which no other composer can parallel. From the point of view of the teacher and student, Haydn's sonatas provide a far wider range of material than Mozart's. The y are more experimental, and their textures and rhythms are more rugged and more varied. The piano sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:52 is one of the most imposing and virtuosic of all of his sonatas. Haydn was in London on his second and last sojourn there when he composed this work for his pupil Therese Jansen Bartolozzi. The first movement, fantasia-like in the range of its rhythmic and pianistic figuration, is one of his greatest sonata movements. The second movement is as great as the first. (See more in text.