Klaviersonaten - Sonates Pour Piano Es-Dur Hob. XVI/52 C-Dur - Hob.XVI/15 Es-dur - Hob.XVI/16

This recording of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas was released by the Swiss label Ex Libris, a brand historically associated with a mail-order book and record club that provided affordable access to classical music in the mid-20th century. Produced during a period when the label frequently commissioned high-quality performances for its subscribers, the disc features Rudolf Buchbinder, an Austrian pianist who began building his reputation as a formidable interpreter of the Viennese classical repertoire early in his career.

The album includes specific sonatas from the Haydn catalog, with the E-flat major Hob. XVI/52 being particularly notable for its technical complexity and late-period maturity. Buchbinder’s approach to these works emphasizes the clarity and structural wit central to Haydn’s keyboard writing. At the time of this pressing, such recordings were integral to the mission of Ex Libris, which sought to bring accomplished, idiomatic interpretations of the core classical canon into the homes of a broader, non-specialist audience.