Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata in C major for Keyboard, Hob. XVI:50 (c.1794-95). Filmed live in the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio on February 25, 2016. Video produced by Tristan Cook. Artists: Anne-Marie McDermott, piano.
You might enjoy (as I did) watching John O'Conor giving a master class on this work - and then watch this video again, noting Anne-Marie's facial expressions. They seem to support what John was trying to get across. I did enjoy this, including the visuals.
One of the best and cleanest interpretations of this wonderful Haydn sonata. Anne-Marie plays it as though she loves the work too. She brings out the fingery sparkle and more lyrical textures in equal measure. Certainly there is variety in touch, and indeed dynamics. My comments relate to the first movement as I haven't heard Anne-Marie play the other movements yet.
andantecantabile andantecantabile But not from this sonata which was written about three years after Mozart’s death. Additionally, this sonata really does not sound like Mozart, not least because it employs a more modern quasi-Beethovenian technique and was written for a much bigger sounding, more powerful and more advanced English fortepiano, very different from anything encountered by Mozart in Vienna. Your general point however is good; Mozart learnt much from Haydn, but as I explained, nothing at all from this particular sonata!
