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Haydn, Piano Works
Joseph Haydn

Schaghajegh Nosrati

Haydn, Piano Works

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 0028948675555
Catnr: AVI 4867555
Release date: 06 June 2025
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CAvi
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AVI 4867555
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06 June 2025
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About the album

“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 CD 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).

Depending on availability and purpose, either instrument was used. The clavichord was considered the best instrument for students to learn to play with nuances, and Haydn composed mainly on the clavichord. .......

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. (aus dem Booklettext von Schaghajegh Nosrati)
"Keiner kann alles: schäkern und erschüttern, Lachen erregen und tiefe Rührung, und alles gleich gut als Haydn"

„Keiner kann alles: schäkern und erschüttern, Lachen erregen und tiefe Rührung, und alles gleich gut als Haydn.“- So äußerte sich Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart über den älteren Kollegen Joseph Haydn, mit dem ihn bis zu seinem Lebensende eine innige Freundschaft verband. Besser kann man diese Musik kaum beschreiben. Humor ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil dieser Musiksprache, aber auch des Haydnschen Charakters, jedenfalls wenn man dem Bericht seines Zeitgenossen Albert Christoph Dies Glauben schenkt, dessen Biografie auf Gesprächen mit dem (bereits hochbetagten) Komponisten beruht: „Haydn erklärte dazu, es sei dies ˋein Charakterzug von ihm, der ehemals von Gesundheitsfülle herrührte… Man wird von einem gewissen Humor ergriffen, der sich nicht bändigen läßt.´“ Die Lektüre dieser ältesten Haydn-Biographie lässt aber auch erahnen, dass sich hinter der heiteren, fast schon naiv anmutenden Fassade eine komplexe Persönlichkeit verbirgt, mit teils starkem Hang zu Melancholie und Depression. Wie jeder große Komponist hat auch Haydn in den Abgrund geblickt, insbesondere in seinen späteren Lebensjahren, in denen er unter zunehmenden körperlichen Gebrechen litt.....

Bei der Auswahl auf dieser CD handelt es sich um einen Querschnitt aus verschiedenen Schaffensphasen des Komponisten. Haydns Clavier-Musik ist in einer Zeitspanne von etwa vier Jahrzehnten (ca. 1755-1796) entstanden. In der damaligen Zeit wurde das Wort „Clavier“ als Oberbegriff für die verschiedenen koexistierenden Tasteninstrumente gebraucht, nämlich: Cembalo, Clavichord und Fortepiano (Hammerflügel). Je nach Verfügbarkeit und Nutzungszweck wurde mal das eine, mal das andere Instrument verwendet. Das Clavichord galt als das beste Instrument für den Schüler und zum Erlernen des nuancenreichen Spiels, und Haydn hat überwiegend auf dem Clavichord komponiert.......

Auch wenn ich mich dazu entschieden habe, alle Stücke auf dem modernen Flügel aufzunehmen, war das Wissen um die jeweils beabsichtigten Instrumente nicht unerheblich für die Diskussion interpretatorischer Fragen. (aus dem Booklettext von Schaghajegh Nosrati)

Artist(s)

Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano)

Born in Bochum in 1989, Schaghajegh Nosrati is highly regarded as a versatile musician. Due to her excellent reputation as an interpreter of Bach’s music, she was able to establish herself as a concert pianist at a young age. Her international breakthrough came through increasing musical collaboration with Sir András Schiff, who has praised the “astonishing clarity, purity, and maturity” of her musical approach, particularly reflected in her renditions of Bach. After many years of working with Rainer Maria Klaas, Schaghajegh Nosrati studied under the guidance of Einar Steen-Nökleberg, Christopher Oakden, and Ewa Kupiec at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media, where she obtained her Artist Diploma (Konzertexamen). She completed a further artist diploma degree in 2020 as a student of Sir András Schiff at the...
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Born in Bochum in 1989, Schaghajegh Nosrati is highly regarded as a versatile musician. Due to her excellent reputation as an interpreter of Bach’s music, she was able to establish herself as a concert pianist at a young age. Her international breakthrough came through increasing musical collaboration with Sir András Schiff, who has praised the “astonishing clarity, purity, and maturity” of her musical approach, particularly reflected in her renditions of Bach.
After many years of working with Rainer Maria Klaas, Schaghajegh Nosrati studied under the guidance of Einar Steen-Nökleberg, Christopher Oakden, and Ewa Kupiec at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media, where she obtained her Artist Diploma (Konzertexamen). She completed a further artist diploma degree in 2020 as a student of Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, and received further valuable artistic counsel from Robert Levin, Murray Perahia, and Daniel Barenboim.
From 2014 to 2021 she made guest appearances at major music venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Vancouver Playhouse, 92Y New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C., Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, and the Philharmonie in Berlin. In 2017 she went on tour for the first time to China, where she gave acclaimed début performances in Beijing and Shanghai.
Stepping in for Radu Lupu, she gave her début performance at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin in 2019; a further highlight in her career was the joint tour with Sir András Schiff and his Cappella Andrea Barca Chamber Orchestra in 2018 with performances of Bach’s concertos for two keyboards at venues including the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Düsseldorf Tonhalle and the KKL Lucerne.
Her first two CDs were released on the label Genuin: Bach’s Art of Fugue (2015) and Bach’s keyboard concertos BWV 1052-1054 with the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin (2017). Her third CD was released in October 2019 on the CAvi-music label label as a coproduction with Deutschlandfunk Kultur: it features a selection of solo piano works by French composer Charles Valentin Alkan, including Concerto pour piano seul. Her first recording with orchestra appeared on the CPO label: Piano concertos by Anton Rubinstein, together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
Back to J.S. Bach, the young pianist recorded the Six Paritas BWV 825-830 as a coproduction with Radio Bremen (CAvi-music).
Parallel to her performance activities, Schaghajegh Nosrati engaged herself in the area of music education very early on. From 2015 to 2019 she taught piano at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media; since 2020 she has been the assistant of Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'.   Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, 'forced to become original'. Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.   He was a friend and mentor of Mozart,...
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(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a teacher of Beethoven, with whom he formed the First Viennese School. He was also the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.

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