De Solaun - Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonatas

In the player�s own words, this is not a dialectical CD. That is, it is not conceived against someone. Instead, it is devotional, votive, a hymn of sorts, or better, a sonorous love letter to the great Haydn, to what he represents for me in music and in life, and to what it means to intertwine myself with him, to blend with him and with his scores. This album does not pretend to be the �last word� in Haydn scholarship or performance, or something that breaks �new interpretative ground�, or something pretending to discover the musical Mediterranean, or to present a �Haydn� purified of ideological �crusts�, �accretions�, �stylistic prejudices�, or of the much-feared �ghost� of �subjectivity�. The controversy is served...