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Gudrun Dengler's recording features works dating from the period 1765 to 1776, but the concentration is on Haydn's published oeuvre of the early 1770s. The sonatas Hob.XVI:23, 24 and 26 belong to a set of six sonatas (Hob.XVI:21-6) dedicated to Prince Nikolaus Esterhizy, most of them written in 1773 and published in 1774. The fourth sonata recorded here (Hob.XVI:27) is from Haydn's next |set of six', the sonatas of |anno 1776'. These works are some of the best of Haydn's |public' sonatas of the period, which although intended for an amateur music public are nonetheless immensely witty, varied, and sophisticated. The other work on the disc is the Capriccio in G major, …