JOSEPH HAYDN

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

Nosrati notes: “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.”