Josu De Solaun - Haydn: Piano Sonatas (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 389 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 269 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:57:03
Classical | Label: IBS Classical
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 389 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 269 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:57:03
Classical | Label: IBS Classical
After this preamble or subtle captatio benevolentiae, I will tell you that in 1992, at the age of ten, I gave my first public recital in the beautiful monastery of Santa Maria del Puig, founded no less than in 1240 near Valencia and where my parents had married in 1980. I could not have imagined that only seven years later I would go to live and study in New York and that Haydn would accompany me on that difficult journey as a fragile but permanent connection to my childhood… And in that 1992 recital, the main score of the evening was a Haydn Sonata, one of the ones I include on this CD: the Sonata in D Major Hob. XVI/14, which is so full of tenderness and of a serene bucolic-pastoral luminosity. It is an inner idyll of simple but sublime grandeur. And so began the red thread that represents Haydn in my life, a kind of locus amoenus (a pleasant place) where I have so often found, and continue to find, solace, consolation and shelter. In my childhood, everyone loved Mozart and Beethoven. Haydn was the ugly duckling. I always felt I was an ugly duckling and maybe that is also why I loved him so much from the beginning…