During a stay in England Haydn wrote a set of songs on English and Scottish texts. It was a goodbye to his English music friends who called him "The Shakespeare of Music". These lyrics came from Anne Hunter, with whom Haydn was good friends. A striking feature of these settings is the richly elaborated piano part. This interest in the piano can be explained by the fact that Haydn had just bought a
… new grand piano. This wing was built by Broadwood. This new CD uses a Broadwood grand piano from 1816. Young Scottish soprano Mhairi Lawson, winner of the Early Music Network Competition 1993 "is accompanied by Olga Tverskaya, grand piano, Rachel Podger, violin and Oleg Kogan, cello. (LW)more
