Haydn: Piano Works Schaghajegh Nosrati

• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:52:
• 1 Haydn: Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:52: I. Allegro (moderato) 08:13
• 2 Haydn: Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:52: II. Adagio 06:14
• 3 Haydn: Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:52: III. Finale. Presto 05:51
• Piano Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI:34:
• 4 Haydn: Piano Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI:34: I. Presto 05:46
• 5 Haydn: Piano Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI: 34: II. Adagio 05:01
• 6 Haydn: Piano Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI: 34: III. Vivace molto, innocentemente 04:00
• Fantasia (Capriccio) in C Major, Hob. XVII:4:
• 7 Haydn: Fantasia (Capriccio) in C Major, Hob. XVII:4 05:46
• Piano Sonata in A Major, Hob. XVI:26:
• 8 Haydn: Piano Sonata in A Major, Hob. XVI:26: I. Allegro moderato 09:34
• 9 Haydn: Piano Sonata in A Major, Hob. XVI:26: II. Menuet al rovescio – Trio – Menuet da capo 01:56
• 10 Haydn: Piano Sonata in A Major, Hob. XVI:26: III. Finale. Presto 00:44
• Andante & Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII:6:
• 11 Haydn: Andante & Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII:6 15:15
• Total Runtime 01:08:20

Info for Haydn: Piano Works

Pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati announces her upcoming album released on our partner label CAvi Music, on which she presents a variety of Haydn’s piano works.

“No one else can do everything, jest and shock, create laughter and profound emotion, as Haydn can, and no one can do everything as well as Haydn can.”

Those were the terms in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart praised his older colleague Joseph Haydn, with whom he remained close friends until the end of his life. It would be hard to find a better description of this music. Humour was an essential part of Haydn's musical language, but also of his character – at least if we are to believe the account of his contemporary Albert Christoph Dies, whose biography is based on conversations with the (already very elderly) composer: “Haydn explained that this was ‘a character trait of his that once came from an abundance of health...

One is seized by a certain humour that cannot be tamed.’ ”However, reading this oldest biography of Haydn also gives us an idea that behind the cheerful, almost naïve façade lies a complex personality with a strong tendency towards melancholy and depression. Like every great composer, Haydn also looked into the abyss, especially in the later years of his life, when he suffered from increasing physical infirmity.

“The selection on this album is a cross-section of the composer’s successive creative phases. Haydn composed keyboard music over about four decades (ca. 1755–1796). In his day, the word “Clavier” was used as a generic term for various keyboard instruments that coexisted, namely the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the fortepiano (Hammerflügel). Although on this recording I have decided to record all works on a modern grand piano, I found it important to take into account which instruments these pieces were intended for when deciding on matters of interpretation and performance,” says Nosrati.

Schaghajegh Nosrati, piano

Schaghajegh Nosrati
was born in Bochum in 1989. She has become known as an extremely versatile musician; that she could establish herself as a concert pianist in early years is due to her excellent reputation as an interpreter of Bach´s music. Her International breakthrough came in 2014 as an award winner at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig and particularly through her increasing musical collaboration with Sir András Schiff who praised the "astonishing clarity, purity and maturity" as well as the musical comprehension associated with it when she plays Bach.

After many years of working with Rainer M. Klaas, Schaghajegh Nosrati was admitted to the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media as a young student of Einar Steen-Nökleberg. She completed her master´s degree under Christopher Oakden in 2015 and her artist diploma under Ewa Kupiec in 2017. Robert Levin, Murray Perahia and Daniel Barenboim gave her further artistic inspiration.

Between 1998 and 2016, she performed as a guest at international music festivals such as the Festival International Echternach, the Schumannfest Düsseldorf and the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad. Further performances followed at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the NDR Kleine Sendesaal in Hannover, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr in Bochum, the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Tonhalle Zurich, 92nd Street Y in New York as well as at the Berliner Philharmonie (with the Mitteldeutsches Kammerorchester, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin and the Bochumer Symphoniker). In 2017, she had her first concert tour in China including debut performances in Shanghai and Beijing.

Furthermore she was invited to play a concert tour with Sir András Schiff and Capella Andrea Barca in 2018 with performances in Dortmund (Konzerthaus), Düsseldorf (Tonhalle), Luxembourg (Philharmonie), Brussels (Palais des Beaux Arts), Vienna (Musikverein), Baden-Baden (Festspielhaus), Salzburg (Stiftung Mozarteum), Bratislawa (Philharmonic Concert Hall), Lucerne (KKL) and Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie).

In 2015 she recorded her first album with Genuin classics (J.S. Bach: "The Art of Fugue"). Her second album (released in autumn 2017 with Genuin classics and Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin) is a recording of Bach´s piano concertos BWV 1052-1054.

Since october 2015, Schaghajegh Nosrati has been teaching at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

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