Haydn: Trios avec piano Jérôme Hantaï, Marc Hantaï, Alessandro Moccia, Alix Verzier

• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:15:
• 1 Haydn: Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:15: I. Allegro 08:47
• 2 Haydn: Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:15: II. Andante 04:52
• 3 Haydn: Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:15: III. Finale. Allegro moderato 05:27
• Piano Trio in F Major, Hob. XV:6:
• 4 Haydn: Piano Trio in F Major, Hob. XV:6: I. Vivace 06:42
• 5 Haydn: Piano Trio in F Major, Hob. XV:6: II. Tempo di minuetto 06:07
• Piano Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16:
• 6 Haydn: Piano Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16: I. Allegro 07:32
• 7 Haydn: Piano Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16: II. Andantino più tosto allegretto 04:33
• 8 Haydn: Piano Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16: III. Vivace assai 04:44
• Piano Trio in E Minor, Hob. XV:12:
• 9 Haydn: Piano Trio in E Minor, Hob. XV:12: I. Allegro moderato 09:42
• 10 Haydn: Piano Trio in E Minor, Hob. XV:12: II. Andante 04:50
• 11 Haydn: Piano Trio in E Minor, Hob. XV:12: III. Rondo. Presto 04:27
• Total Runtime 01:07:43

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On 1 May 1761, at the age of twenty-nine, Joseph Haydn officially became Vice-Capel-Meister to Prince Paul II Anton Esterházy, after having been Director of Music (Musikdirektor) to Count Karl Joseph von Morzin, who had squandered his fortune and had to disband his orchestra. Much has been made of the contract he signed that day. However, despite its demanding terms, it is not true that Haydn was reduced to the level of a servant, far from it, and his salary of 400 Gulden a year was double what he received from Count Morzin. But one of its restrictive clauses did forbid him to communicate to anyone new compositions requested by the prince, and to compose for anyone else without the monarch’s “gracious permission”. Although there were many breaches of this article four of his contract, Haydn had to wait almost eighteen years before signing a new one on 1 January 1779, in which this exclusive clause was omitted. He was now free to sell his music openly to publishers – in Vienna, London or Paris. Only a few months earlier, the firm of Carlo Artaria (and family), an art and map publisher in Vienna, had extended its activities to music. In 1779, they contacted Haydn, and in April 1780 published a collection of his piano sonatas, the first of more than three hundred editions of his works including, of course, many of his keyboard trios, notably the four recorded here. Haydn’s correspondence with Artaria on the subject reveals many new facets of the composer’s profession.

Jérôme Hantaï, pianoforte
Marc Hantaï, flute
Alessandro Moccia, violin
Alix Verzier, cello

Marc Hantaï
war Schüler von Barthold Kuijken am Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles und schloss diese Studien 1986 mit Auszeichnung (Diplôme supérieur avec grande distinction) ab.

Er arbeitete als erster Flötist mit bekannten Orchestern der Alte-Musik-Szene zusammen, so z.B. dem Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken), Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi), Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Le Concert Français (Pierre Hantaï), Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble (Thomas Hengelbrock), La Chambre Philharmonique (Emmanuel Krivine), Anima Eterna Brugge (Jos van Immerseel) und Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall).

Als Solist und Kammermusiker konzertiert Marc Hantaï regelmäßig in Europa, Japan, Korea und den Vereinigten Staaten.

Seine CD-Einspielungen umfassen u.a. W.F. Bachs 6 Flötenduette, Haydns Londoner Trios, Les Nations von Couperin (mit den Kuijken-Brüdern), die H-Moll-Suite und das Musikalische Opfer von J.S. Bach (mit Jordi Savall) sowie Bachs Flötensonaten (mit seinen Brüdern Jérôme Hantaï, Viola da gamba, und Pierre Hantaï, Cembalo).

Marc Hantaï war einige Jahre Assistent von Barthold Kuijken am Konservatorium in Brüssel. Er unterrichtet an der Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya und seit Wintersemester 2008/09 an der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

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