JOSEPH HAYDN Keyboard Concertos Hob.XVIII:4, 6 & 11 Andreas Staier, Freiburger Barockorchester

one hopes that the author of this judgment pronounced in 1771 went on to temper his remarks when he heard such masterpieces as Haydn’s concerto in D major, with its celebrated ‘Hungarian’ finale. It is true that in the last years of the Baroque period the genre was somewhat in eclipse: the Classical style was born of a certain facility – which is nonetheless highly entertaining!Andreas Staier plays a fortepiano by Monika May, Marburg, 1986, after Walter, Vienna, 1785.

This title was released for the first time in 2004.