Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano

French audiences flocked to hear Joseph Haydn’s music during the 1780s, thanks not least to the storming success of his six Paris symphonies. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, whose complete recordings of the composer’s piano sonatas have been showered with critical praise, traces Haydn’s lasting legacy in France with the distinctive works of Hommage à Joseph Haydn, an anthology of six pieces published to commemorate the centenary of his death in 1909.