Complete Works for Solo Keyboard

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Product Description The First Naxos Blu-Ray- a recording of the complete works of Joseph Haydn for solo keyboard in nine virtual reconstructions of the rooms in which these pieces would have been originally performed, using seven specially-crafted historical keyboards. A trail-blazing project of four Blu-Ray discs featuring 14.5 hours of music with an added picture in picture option, plus a three-hour documentary on the making of the recordings, directed by award-winning director and screen-writer Robert J. Litz. A fully interactive experience, this epic set offers users the opportunity to direct their own performance of a short Andante for Musical Clock; by selecting from a choice of rooms and instruments users can freely navigate 63 possible combinations to experiment with sound and acoustics as if wandering the 18th century halls themselves. Review ...And what presents? If you know someone with a Blu-ray player and surround-sound but nothing but Batman movies, try The Virtual Haydn, a complete survey of piano sonatas on Naxos by McGill professor Tom Beghin, who plays replica pianos (which do make a difference) in sonic replicas of historic rooms. This is audio, not video, although there are images on the screen, and a documentary is included. Four discs bring you 15 hours of music. For those still into CDs, try the recent Deutsche Grammophon recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio (plus a Rachmaninoff filler) with Lang Lang, Vadim Repin and Mischa Maisky. -- Canada.com, Arthur Kaptainis, December 19, 2009Here are 18 hours of heaven for devotees of historical keyboards, as McGill University professor and performer Tom Beghin presents all of Joseph Haydn's keyboard works on three Blu-ray audio discs. With the help of specialized acoustical engineers, Beghin was able to replicate the acoustics of a variety of historic rooms inside the recording studio at McGill's Schulich School of Music. Beghin also had new, historically accurate instruments made for the project, including two types of harpsichords, a clavichord, a square piano, a fortepiano and an early modern grand piano. The fourth disc provides comprehensive video background, including a making-of documentary. A general listener will find plenty to like in the performances themselves, all nicely programmed across the various "rooms" and instruments. Even the audio discs only work on a Blu-ray player. -- Toronto Star, John Terauds, December 15, 2009The Collection The Virtual Haydn: Complete Works for Solo Keyboard is another in a line of Blu-ray Audio recordings utilizing the "Pure Audio" standard jointly developed by msm-studios in Germany and Norwegian label 2L. It allows for switching between the high-resolution 5.1(DTS-HD Master Audio; 96kHz/24-bit) and 2.0 (LPCM 96kHz/24-bit) audio programs on the discs by simply pressing the Red or Yellow buttons on your player's remote. It is the first such release from Naxos. For this 4-BD collection, Tom Beghin, musician and historian, teams up with his McGill University colleagues Martha De Francisco and Wieslaw Woszczyk for what turns out to be a rather interesting, yet unusual, project in the world of Classical music. Joseph Haydn is one of the accepted masters of music, no doubt, but his solo keyboard repertoire has been neglected over the years in favor of his younger contemporaries Mozart and Beethoven. There are perhaps only two pieces from Haydn's keyboard works that have become standards of the repertoire, and they are the Sonata in E-Flat Major. Hob. XVI:49 and Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob, XVI:52. Tom Beghin wanted to change all of that by finally bringing together all of Haydn's solo keyboard works in one grand collection. But The Virtual Haydn goes one step beyond that by bringing together Haydn's works on instruments that he would have played on in the 18th Century and placing them in the very rooms where Haydn himself and his contemporaries would have played them. How this is accomplished is the real story beh