Piano Recital: Laun, Susan von - HAYDN, F.J. / BACH, J.C. / MOZART, W.A. / SCHUB

The seventy instruments in the Hamburg "Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe“ have been donated by Prof. Andreas Beurmann. They include plucked instruments, clavichords and fortepianos stretching from the 1540 Italian harpsichord to the 1871 Steinway concert grandpiano. They are mostly maintained in playing order and provide the possibility of performing music of different styles and periods on the appropriate instruments.

The fortepiano is the keyboard instrument of the classic and early romantic period. At that time the ingenious piano makers created a variety of different pianos of a high standard of craftsmensship: square pianos, fortepianos, pianos as part of furniture. The sound of many of these can be altered by mechanical devices..

The period instruments have a characteristic sound including a high percentage of overtones.The smooth-running keys offer piano playing with very little physical effort. Each of the precious instruments, an important heritage of those tmes, provides a guide of the taste and feeling for music of the late 18th. and early 19th. century.

Susanne von Laun regularly plays the instruments of this collection in concerts and at guided tours. The artist who received the "Muzio Clementi Award“ in 2005, selected five instruments for this recording (a Tafelklavier dated 1777, three Hammerflügel from 1795 to 1820 and a Broadwood Grand Piano from 1841), which are presented for the first time here on this album.

Piano Recital: Laun, Susan von - HAYDN, F.J. / BACH, J.C. / MOZART, W.A. / SCHUBERT, F. / CHOPIN, F.

Susan von Laun

Chamber

Piano Recital: Laun, Susan von - HAYDN, F.J. / BACH, J.C. / MOZART, W.A. / SCHUBERT, F. / CHOPIN, F.

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Adagio in F major, Hob.XVII:9

Keyboard Sonata (Divertimento) No. 4 in G major, Hob.XVI:G1

JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH

Keyboard Sonata in G major, Op. 5, No. 3, W. A3

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Adagio in G major, Hob.XV:22 (first version of Piano Trio No. 22, Hob.XV:22: II. Adagio)

String Quartet No. 29 in G major, Op. 33, No. 5, Hob.III:41, "How do you do?"

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Rondo in D major, K. 485

Adagio in C major, K. 356

FRANZ SCHUBERT

34 Valses Sentimentales, Op. 50, D. 779

FRYDERYK CHOPIN

Nocturne No. 21 in C minor

Mazurka No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 7, No. 1

Mazurka No. 6 in A minor, Op. 7, No. 2

Mazurka No. 7 in F minor, Op. 7, No. 3

Mazurka No. 9 in C major, Op. 7, No. 5

Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth.