The long-prevalent Romantic approach to performance negatively affected Haydn's music more than Mozart's or Beethoven's, leading to a misrepresentation of his "language-based music" and his image as "good-natured Papa Haydn."
Performer Biography
Trio Jean Paul, founded in 1991, has won First Prizes at international competitions in Osaka (1993), Melbourne (1995), and the German Music Competition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Haydn would conceive and write down a story for each planned work, but he destroyed these inspirational texts after completing the composition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Haydn's music is characterized by elements of surprise and a constant foiling of audience expectations, often with a "quasi-diabolical pleasure" in perturbing listeners.
Interpretation
The performers, Trio Jean Paul, believe that understanding 18th-century rhetoric and articulation is key to interpreting Haydn's music on modern instruments, despite their different sound characteristics compared to Haydn's time.
Composition History
The Trio Hob.XV:26, the last work on this album, was written during Haydn's second stay in London and dedicated to Rebecca Schroeter, an amateur pianist with whom he had a deep personal relationship that could not progress due to his existing marriage.
Compositional Technique
The keys of the four Haydn trios on this disc (C, D, E, F#) form an ascending tritone, an interval historically known as the "diabolus in musica" due to its dissonance.
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