The symphonies Haydn wrote for his two London visits in the early 1790s were the summation of a long career, bringing him the international celebrity his work for the Esterházy family had denied him.

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The problem with Haydn is where do I begin? Composers come in two categories, frugal and prolific. Arnold Schoenberg never wrote more than one opus a year. Haydn could write three in a week. However, ...

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 ...