Haydn – Piano Sonatas

Haydn - Piano Sonatas Nos 48-52, Hob XVI: 35-39
Due to pressures elsewhere these are getting more like tweets than proper blog entries but ploughing on regardless. I expected these pieces to be vaguely pleasant, but they were amazing. There is a depth of expressiveness here, almost Romantic, which I have never noticed in Haydn before. There seem to be three Haydns – the sensitive Haydn who wrote these sonatas, the urbane Haydn who wrote the string quartets, and the clodhopping moron who wrote the symphonies (as to which see http://terrapinlistens2.blogspot.com/2008/12/haydn-symphonies-nos-100-military-and.html).