Released on Onyx Classics on 28 March 2025. Featuring the music by JS Bach, CPE Bach, JC Bach, WF Bach and JCE Bach.
“Hayroudinoff’s choices of pieces here are inspired. Third English Suite proves a good showcase for precise technique, even touch, crisp articulation and crystal-clear textures…The magnificent Sarabande is as spacious and brooding as you could want… WF [Bach] steals in with a weird, chromatically twining fugue before spilling over into a skittishly virtuosic Fantasia, smashing together different styles and textures as was his wont. Hayroudinoff captures the twitchy energy and electric invention of this music, as he does in two sonatas by CPE [Bach]...In the two polonaises by WF his expressive sensitivity shines. These contemplative little poems, rich with romantic feeling, really deserve to be heard more, especially when (as these performances show) they benefit so from being performed on the piano. Welcome back, then, to a pianist with an eye for rewardingly unusual programming and whose fingers, thankfully, sound in excellent shape.”
- Gramophone, June 2025
The largest and best-known work is the father’s G minor English Suite, sensitively played, sparely pedalled, tastefully ornamented and subtly inflected. ...fingery brilliance, juxtapositions between fiery virtuosity and melancholy lyricism... Played with obvious affection on a fine-sounding instrument, this is an album that enlightens as surely as it entertains. A heartfelt welcome back to a fine artist."
- International Piano, May 2025
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