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CDJoseph Haydn : Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 4 / Geoffrey Lancaster, fortepiano.
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Tall Poppies and fortepianist Geoffrey Lancaster continue to
journey through Joseph Haydn's complete keyboard sonatas.
Lancaster presented the complete cycle of 52 sonatas in concert
in Melbourne, Perth and Canberra to mark the Haydn Bicentenary in
2009, and has been recording the works using period instruments
from public and private Australian collections. He is currently
Professor of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts,
Edith Cowan University.
Critically acclaimed as 'a genius of the fortepiano', Dr
Lancaster is one of Australia's most distinguished keyboardists
and was the first Australian to win a major international
keyboard competition. His honours include the ARIA Best Classical
Album, Gramophone Best Recording, the Sounds Australian Award,
the Order of Australia, the Order of Arts and Letters, and ACT
Australian of the Year.
This series reveals the genius of Haydn. Lancaster plays with
amiable virtuosity, embellishing as he goes, and finding all the
latent humour and passion in these magnificent sonatas. His
historically-informed performances bring clarity, originality,
and insightful musical understanding to these works, the
fortepianos responding with gusto to the drama and emotion in the
music.
All of the covers for this series feature paintings by
Australia's great painter, Fred Williams (with kind permission of
Lyn Williams and the Estate of Fred Williams), giving this series
a uniquely Australian flavour.
Duration: 55 min.
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