Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

Haydn’s symphonies–104 in all, produced over a four-decade span–chart the growth of a facile compositional mind as well as a genre that would become the foundation of the classical canon. Even the ...

The music of Mozart and Haydn is rarely as simple as it looks, and indeed, much of it is riddled with enough traps to trip up unwary performers. Some try to sidestep the land mines by making ...

Joseph Haydn is every bit the equal of Mozart and Beethoven but loses out in popular appeal because he was so prolific. Very few of his invariably excellent pieces stand out from the crowd the way ...

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 second-oldest civic orchestra in California, the Vallejo Symphony continues its 2016-17 season at 3 p.m. Sunday with a standard-repertoire program of Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven. Conductor ...

Second movement of the Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings, and Bass Continuo in C minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed ...

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A complete cycle of Haydn’s 104 symphonies on period instruments has always seemed just out of reach. After two earlier cycles were aborted part way through Decca decided to bring those together and ...