As a legacy, this album confirms Sir Colin Davis' brilliance as a conductor of Haydn. Haydn conceived his innovative late symphonies on a large scale, and they surpassed even his own normal high ...

However, the nickname of the Symphony Number 104 “London” is not derived from any musical component, but is instead a rather arbitrary name given to the last of Haydn’s so-called “London Symphonies,” ...

To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, Ted Libbey considers the great composer's final set of symphonies. Joseph Haydn's last 12 symphonies, commissioned by the London impresario ...

Is Joseph Haydn's music boring? Not at all, say Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. On their musical journey through Haydn's symphonic works, they discover new and ...

Aficionados of Adám Fischer’s revisiting of Haydn’s ‘London’ Symphonies will know what to expect from this final instalment. His nimble chamber band fields a lean string section that nevertheless ...

The baroque chamber orchestra Camerata Tinta Barocca will feature award-winning South African flautist Liesl Stoltz in a programme of two of Joseph Haydn’s London symphonies on Wednesday 11 November.

Richard Wigmore for Building a Library sifts through some of the available recordings of Haydn Symphony No. 99 in E flat and comes up with a recommendation. By the time Haydn wrote his ninety-ninth ...

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Jeremy Nicholas introduces a piano transcription of Haydn’s Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93 by Julius Schulhoff. The sheet music for the work appears in our Spring 2025 issue Spina, the Viennese ...