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- Alfred Brendel, piano
By the late 1780s, Haydn's works for keyboard were clearly intended for the piano as opposed to the harpsichord. His exploitation of the dynamic potential of the relatively new piano grows with each of his last sonatas.
Until Beethoven's middle-period sonatas, Classical-era works for solo keyboard were very often written for a composer's students and were intended to stress certain aspects of technique. At the time, the concerto was the vehicle for the performing virtuoso. Haydn was never a keyboard virtuoso, but had a number of students for whom he composed piano sonatas. The wide range of ability among his students accounts for the disparate levels of sophistication and technical difficulty we find among the surviving sonatas, most of which were written before 1770. Some of these works have been lost because Haydn gave the manuscripts to his students without making copies. A few of Haydn's sonatas, however, were not composed for his students.
The Sonata in E flat major, H. 16:49, was composed for Marianne von Genzinger, the wife of the Esterházy family physician. Haydn's relationship with Genzinger may have grown from a mutual affinity for things musical, but it seems certain from some the composer's letters that the relationship grew into some version of love. However, most of the composer's communications to Genzinger, although in a more relaxed style than those to others, are discreet, often discussing musical issues. Concerning the E flat sonata, Haydn referred to the second movement, an Adagio, as "quite new...it contains many things I shall analyze for Your Grace when the time comes; it is rather difficult but full of feeling."
The E flat major sonata is also a fairly late work, completed in 1790. It shares a certain intimate style with other works directed toward Genzinger, but is quite Beethovenian in some respects. (In general, Haydn's late keyboard sonatas are among his most forward-looking works, and perhaps those in which his influence upon Beethoven is most visible.) The first movement, in sonata form, is marked Allegro non troppo and moves forward quickly in a bouncing triple meter. Compared to those of the symphonies Haydn composed during this same period, the transition between key areas is brief. We hear a plethora of material on the secondary key, B flat major, most of which shows up in the extensive development. In the recapitulation, the transition, as usual, resolves the secondary material to the tonic. A coda develops transitional material on its way to a firm close-a procedure Beethoven would borrow from Haydn and expand upon.
The exquisite Adagio cantabile is an ABA structure in B flat major with highly decorated thematic material. Touches of the tonic minor add a melancholic feel to the movement, while numerous runs suggest that Genzinger had a formidable technique.
Haydn composed a large Minuet with two Trio sections as the finale of the E flat major sonata. Everything begins conventionally enough: the Minuet follows the traditional pattern of repetition, with the first part consisting of an eight-measure phrase that closes on the dominant. The first Trio opens with a theme built of descending scales, which contrast with the rising figures of the second part. After the Trio we hear a literal return to the Minuet, as we expect, but only the first part appears and it turns out to be a bridge to the second Trio, in E flat minor. This in turn is followed by a slightly varied reprise of the entire first Minuet section in E flat major.
![Brendel plays Haydn Sonata No.58, Hob. XVI 48 [complete]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wa1qtTsmlLQ/mqdefault.jpg)
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Haydn is clearly underrated as a solo piano composer, but the number of moods and changes in register is amazing. This sonata shifts from being playful to being profound with ease. It has a dance within it also. Brendel is a man who follows the score closely, a rare thing nowadays. You can learn from watching and listening to him, but what he does looks a lot easier than it is. A master!
He is NOT underrated. What are you talking about
Viscamo
I suspect that almost all the ‘underrated’, and similar comments found on TH-cam originate from the US.
In spite of some of the greatest Haydn scholars of the past 75 years emanating from that country, the general level of knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the composer appears to be markedly less than in Europe and elsewhere.
Yes . To me underrated ! Very few concertos include Haydn pieces. Gould and Richter say that Haydn is greater than Mozart in piano sonatas !!!!
@@Viscamo why haydn is not pliaed frequently !?
@@elaineblackhurst1509 Quite true. Everything you wrote. I still get puzzled looks from instrumental musicians when I casually mention all that Haydn contributed in elevating the sonata and symphony to the fore. And let's also remember that the assumption that each and every human being capable of commenting on TH-cam has a built-in 100% accurate understanding baked into their DNA of all the objectively true and confirmed "ratings" of all piano composers throughout history, including the worldwide averages in any given time period or range, and the true and accurate numbers for each continent, nation, state, region, locality etc, is in point of fact an exceedingly unreliable one, and we must admit of at least some doubt in the proposition that there should be (and that there even can be) a solid mutual agreement between all observers on each commenter's attempt to put forth the true and accurate ratings that apply equally to all of us (as if such a state of affairs could ever come into being).
One of those rare performers who can actually make a piano feel loved.
Are you a piano?
HelicopterShownUp lol good one
HelicopterShownUp. Stop being stupid.
True in the sense that one establishes a rapport with an instrument in order to perfect the sound.
THE best Haydn interpreter, I know of. Thank you Mr. Brendel
One of the best, but there are many other great Haydn interpreters, for eg. Gould, Horowitz, Schirmer, Richter and Gulda.
@@Olegstuff21986gould is terrible
Una splendida esecuzione, bellissimo suono, rotondo e caldo, gran gusto nel fraseggio ed equilibrio in tempi e dinamiche: un vero Maestro
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I'll be completely honest. I only came here for Lestat's part, and I fell in love with the whole piece.
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Oh.! Mr Brendel . You are a fantastic musician, before to be an extraordinary pianist ! Thank you for your effort to explore the soul of our misic geniusues !!!@
Wonderful music, Wonderful performance many thanks xxx
J'adore cette sonate et je trouve l'interprétation tellement juste, pas trop rapide... souvent c'est joué trop vite. Mais là toute l'âme de Haydn est présente. Merci Mr BRENDEL.
Haydn is Sublime Beautiful Melodic Inventive Fascinating as Always!!! Mr. Brendel is probably the 2nd Best Haydn player after the also Very Good Emmanuel Ax!!! May God Bless y'all Richly and Jesus Peace!!! ❤😮😂🎉
I’m in awe of any one who plays a musical instrument….i know nothing about how one constructs a tune, timing, placing of notes, and actual reading of a music sheet. Keep playing, as I think you’re brilliant!
This is the exact sonata that dragged me into classical music world back then.
Old hands, make light of work (wonderful hands literally), give Haydn's impulsive yet free, fragile creativity such beauty, youth, and freshness too. Yet, underlying all is a profundity of feeling, a sense our precariousness, those dear old hands catch so well.
This performance is wonderful. You can feel the running of notes so smoothly as if on water. The calmness and tranquility of it is beyond measure. Simply AMAZING!!!
I agree, this is the best performance of the Piano Sonata No 59 that I've listened to on TH-cam.
I would have thought running on graphite, as in absolutely frictionless , which is what I’m sure Yumetsu means.
Alfred Brendel climbs into the skin (figuratively) of the composer and his unravelling of nuances is masterfully earnest in sincerity.I am sure Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Herr Haydn himself gave the nod of approval on this rendition wherever they are listening in from.
I totally agree with you. Such a brilliant performance
For those who love Haydn's great but frequently ignored piano sonatas, I recommend his great series if Trios for Piano, Violin, and Cello. They contain some his greatest instrumental music, and his most virtuosic piano writing.
1st movement 0:14
2nd movement: 8:02
3rd movement 17:27
You just copy me.
Поражает неиссякаемая изобретательность Гайдна, как композитора! Исполнение просто замечательное!
This is the best interpration of haydn i've ever heard. this kind of sound is such amazing. Awesome Brendel
Just so wonderful. There is a lifetime of triumph and tragedy in the second movement -- if you really listen, Haydn and Brendel tell you more about their lives than any words ever could.
I am not a Haydn aficionado because he lived for such a long time as composers of old go,consequently his works are exceeding voluminous
yet the second movement that you so aptly elaborated upon is one of my all-time favourite treasured discoveries.I never tire of hearing it. I grasped the-essence of a great composers sentimental reflections. As for Alfred Brendel fine wines don’t come finer.
@@ewhyte8059 how a huge work could be a bad thing?
@@sinivet not a bad thing just so much material to listen to along with many other outstanding composers.
A beautiful sonata by Joseph Haydn performed by Alfred Brendel.
What a classical morning for me indeed.
The movie Interview With The Vampire brought me here!
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Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
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What great rubato and insight! Not many pianists are at this level of artistry.
Just few can play Haydn like he does; clean, brilliant and lively both his playing and the sonata!
La riqueza espiritual de Haydn queda patentada en esta sonata. El piano solo es el medio trasmisor de ese enorme capital. Esencia elevada, en un tiempo que le resultó propicio. Brendel, un ejecutor sereno, entregado en su ejecución. Ellos dos, diseñan un mundo maravilloso, serenidad y belleza.
Que tiene de espiritual?
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the most clean and smooth version of the sonata I have ever saw... luv it
Brendel captures the elegance, the wit and the wisdom of Haydn like noone else!
Here, in my opinion, we are seeing a Rare interpretation....
Haydn's "few notes", with its geometric structures, are Clear, Balanced, and really full of Beauty and Pathos....all visible in the ecstasy of Mr. Brendel's facial expressions....
Pure Art ✨
What a great artist, and how endearing is this man, with his appearance of wise clueless! Plays abstracted but not distant. Has something that makes him familiar and close, as a father, as a friend... I'd be listening to him hours and hours.
There are measures where Haydn peeks far into the future. Finest playing imaginable.
This rendition by Alfred Brendel of the Hayden sonata is a gift of joy to us and to posterity.
Alfred plays with such feeling. Such a soft touch. Brilliant.
A marvelous piano sonata that, for me, can take its place alongside many Mozart and some Beethoven sonatas. The contrasting section in the second movement is sheer magic with its controlled yet penetrating emotion. Beautifully played by! Brendel
Brendel has such a way with Haydn. Always a pleasure to hear his recordings.
Maestro Brendel has a way with everything !
Un gran maestro interpreta magistralmente esta sonata de Haydn, cuya obra para piano merece ser más conocida
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Runs smoothly like water. Bravo bravo!
Am learning this piece at the moment and there couldn't be a better example of how to play it than Mr. Brendel's interpretation.
I agree, I played this for my exam piece few years back. This video helps a lot, I love his interpretation! 💖👏👏👏
The very best rendition of this remarkably inspired work by Joseph Haydn. Nobody comes close to A. Brendel here. Thanks for the post! -gus
Bravo Maestro, bravo! Around the world listeners are in awe of your incredible intuition and mastery of the instrument, the composition, and our own experience of it. Many thanks and again: Bravo!
Brendel is just astonishing. Glad I got to see him live. Brendel has it all memorized and his interpretation is just--Wiener Klassik on the mark.
Superb playing, keeping to the music’s unrushed tranquility, clipped intensity and exquisite chordal interest while looking to romanticism in perfect taste and balance; a spacious acoustic but this is ravishing Haydn.
Прекрасное произведение и прекрасное исполнение. Можно слушать и слушать с огромным удовольствием.
Эта музыка вечная. Гайдн безусловно гений. Привет из Киева.
Очень бережное, искренное исполнение сонаты! Красота звуков и яркость чувств! Браво, Маэстро!!!
Please tell me how you can possibly dislike this performance by probably the greatest interpreter of Haydn/Mozart & Beethoven that we have ever had!! N.Hill GTCL(Hons) LTCL PGCE(Mus)
Grand moment de piano extrêmement bien interpréter par Alfred Brendel.
Délice de la musique qui gomme tous les tracas de la vie.
merci.
11:57 "Listen, Louie...theres life, in these old hands, still..."
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Is this what he was playing? It definitely sounds like it but I haven't watched the movie in a while. lol. I though it was kind of a facsimile of it.
I've been looking for this piece for so long, I finally found it.
@@tristanperotti433I’m assuming this refers to a movie? Mind sharing which one?
@@journeymancellist9247interview with the vampire
this is performed so crystal clear - instant goosebumps @ 11:57
This was played by Lestat in Interview with the Vampire
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The finale I play every day because it has such pleasingly elegant simplicity. All I need do now is capture the time and momentum to memorize the entire piece.
Amazing how Alfred Brendel always appeared to make the piano sing rather than simply knock off the notes.
11:57. So mellow and full of emotion! I love this!!! Sea of Tranquility brought me here!
Timeless music, this could help for healing purposes, breakdowns and other calamities, a moment of eternity.
Magnifique Interprétation de cette superbe sonate; BRAVO !!!!!!!!
I love this piece so much! I’m glad I’m playing it right now
Discovered when I watched a movie and I liked that marvellous melody immediately!!!!!!!
Haydn's influence on Beethoven is unmistakable
Beethoven’s third piano sonata…
@@NicholasCharette what about it?
Just agreeing with your initial comment. The adagio in both is very similar.
Alfred Brendel is a giant among contemporary musicians. His performance of this glorious late Haydn sonata is simply sublime.
For anyone interested, he has recorded a selection of this composer’s works for solo piano for Philips. The box-set in question contains Haydn’s wonderful Variations in f minor.
MusicandLiterature This sonata, astonishingly, is not as ‘late’ as some imagine; the outer movements were written in 1789, the now very well-known (post-Lestat) slow movement in early 1790, in other words, whilst Haydn was still at Eszterhaza before the death of Prince Nicholas and well before the visits to England.
Magnificent Mr. Brendel, a real Master
Brendel is fantastic...he, along with Claudio Arrau and Kempff are giants in my eyes
He plays with closed eyes. Just wow!
I have played this song so many times, and it has never sounded like this... so much for learning to read music on my own haha
This piano's action seems so very crisp and responsive. There's very little, if any, bounce detected in the keys, even during fast passages. Closeup shots in this video are so very gratifying to watch!
Bellissima sonata, grande interpretazione. Più l'ascolto e più mi piace. È un incanto. Il tempo lento ..una meraviglia. Grazie grazie.
This is perhaps my favorite video in all of TH-cam!
Sr. Brendel , su rostro no dice lo que su corazón y mente ejecutan...una magnífica ejecución e interpretación llena de sensibilidad y excelente ejecución!!...Me gustó el manejo de poliritmos , en una mano derecha un tipo de figura y en la izquierda otro. Este tipo de ejecuciones son difíciles de lograr ya que requieren de un gran independencia de manos y mente así como dominio de la obra.
Muchas gracias , felicidades y Dios lo bendiga. Efrain Dávila Razcón.
Это испанский?...
@@marfak5369 gracias por su tiempo y respuesta, lamento no conocer el idioma ruso. Ojalá y pueda traducir al inglés...Gracias.
@@elisatress596
Lo siento, solo pregunté si era español.
También me disculpo si escribí mal algo, usé un traductor.
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3rd movement is legend. even mozart can't think of stuff like that to be honest. the change of keys on the fifth bar onwards is subtle. and they it switches between major and minor is simply maestro
+johannsebastienbach But... Haydn is a great Maestro, a genius in history of music. For ever.
To be fair Mozart and Bethoven were influenced by Joseph Haydn and his brother Michael Haydn.
i know that. but mozart is more famous. im just saying mozart conposed lots of average pieces
Very charming performance and nice sound quality!
Perfect position, tone, and pitch... so lovely...
8:00 second movement
17:26 third movement
That second movement dou
so dope
@@clowndriver5576 I'm playing them now. Hope I can be as good UwU
The best interpretation! Thanks you very much Maestro Brendell!!!
what a great place to play the piano! sounds so lovely.
This performance is a revelation to me. It is sublime.
Alfred Brendel is, as always, a thoroughly virtuoso pianist. Gabe Meruelo.
Haydn's music (and Brendel's playing!) is noble and elegant. But not in baroque style. I think that is the unique position and charm of Haydn, also with the good sense of humor. His music is not dull - shows enough variety in harmony, development of motive, etc. We have enough reasons to love his music.
Alfred Brendel is in my opinion one of the best performers ever. Dave B
Dam right!
A sensitive sonata well çi_n the mood ans style of Haydn. The rendering of Brendel is an awsome
Admirable el talento del ser humano, ojalá siempre se usará de esta manera
Haydn immenso genio !@@@ grande come Mozart nelle sonate per piano. Colui che dall' alto della sua suprema perizia consegnera ' Mozart e Beethoven un nuovo linguaggo!!! Genio tanto grande quanto poco conosciuto al pubblico . VARENNA , lago di Como , 26.01.3023
I have been wondering for years what the IndGR piece was in civ 3. I always knew it had to be one of the greats. Thank you random commenter somewhere that let me know. Now I can imagine a three way standoff in the industrial era for 20 minutes.
Excelente Haydn. Extraordinaria versión y muy buena la reseña de la historia de esta sonata ¿de que año es este registro del gran Alfred Brendel? Cuando uno escucha a estos grandes pianistas siempre aprende cosas nuevas. Gracias
Спасибо большое, Папа Гайден, Спасибо, гсп. Брендел. Когда чувствуешь себя плохо - вот лекарство.
Thank you mr Brendel !! We love you.. !!!!
Toute la finesse de l âme germanique. Cela change des pianistes sémites que l on nous sert continuellement.
Do we really need Germanophilia and antiSemitism in these comments?
Just I love it.. The real music..!!
Il virtuoso Brendel è grande nel solo per piano di Haydn N° 59. Un pezzo che va dedicato.
This guy memorized it all...
I feel inadequate.
Why all the fuss about the thumbs down? They obviously were given by lovely oldies who just can't get enough of Haydn but unfortunately happen to have Parkinson's desease.
OMG this piece was played so well !!!
Learning this right now. Hope to play anywhere near as well as this rendition.
Amazing, wonderful!
The composer and the performer make us cry..
As always much gratitude for Maestro Brendel's enlightening exposure to the magic of 18th century musical idioms. However, the fortepiano is my preferred instrument for Haydn's sonata: die gustibus methinks.
Admittedly I had chills before he even started playing but my God.
Exemplary playing from this fine artist. I play this sonata too. I find it a most satisfying work to play.
The contrapuntal section at the beginning of the development in the first movement is played so well.
Wonderful piece and playing!!!
Increíble! El segundo movimiento me encanta!!
Great finger work!!
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I mean....who gives this a thumbs down? Is that for Haydn or the pianist or the film quality or the sound or...just cuz they're having a bad day?
All classic piano players on this tube are great.
Very often I give a thumb up or nothing at all!
Brendel is a great artist, a 'pure' player.
AAH Replies or from New Zealand.
Or maybe because they are ass holes? 🤠
Cuz only them having a bad day makes any sense.
Mark Harmon because they want to. They dont need your permission to have their own opinion.
Superbe interprétation, très shubertienne mais pourquoi pas, puisque plaisir et émotion sont là !
En effet. Pour un Haydn plus Haydn, on écoutera le pianiste français Alain Planès.
Perfect version!
Who unliked this?? I cant understand......He's really nice👍👍
Nuostabu. Kokia garsu harmonija. Ir koks atlikimas. Virtuozo.
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