Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Debussy cycle has proven to be among the best-selling recordings for Chandos in recent years and an award-winning collection across the world. He now embarks on the Haydn Piano Sonatas, and confirms that he should in no way be pigeon-holed in French repertoire. Few leading pianists have recorded these virtuosic Classical sonatas but in the hands of Maestro Bavouzet he offers something new to these contributions to piano repertoire. The programme for Volume 1 contains the experimental and ambitious Sonata in A flat major, No.31; the elegantly virtuosic Sonata in D major, No.39l, expressive Sonata in B minor, No.47 and the almost Schubertian Sonatas in C sharp minor, No.49. Volume Two will be released this autumn. Bavouzet launches this new series with the support of a number of concerts across Europe.